Northeast Faces Humanitarian Disaster As UN Suspends Food Aid For 1.3m Persons
THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it will suspend all emergency food and nutrition assistance for 1.3 million people.
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Israel Kills 45 In Gaza Today As UN Says Starvation ‘Worse Than Ever’
PHILIPPE Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of engineering the “most cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill”.
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UN Says 613 Gaza Killings Recorded At Aid Sites, Near Humanitarian Convoys
THE United Nations human rights office has said it recorded at least 613 killings of Palestinians, both at controversial aid points run by.
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Israeli Strikes Kill At Least 52 Across Gaza As UN Demands Ceasefire Vote
ISRAELI attacks have killed at least 52 people across Gaza since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as the United Nations General Assembly.
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UN Seeks Tinubu’s Intervention As 138m Kids Crumble In Child Labour
NEARLY 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health, safety and.
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UN Demands Probe As Israeli Forces Kill More People Near Aid Site In Gaza
ISRAELI forces have opened fire again on Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid from a distribution site in Gaza, killing at least three people and.
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United Nations Court Backs Guinea In Gabon Dispute Over Islands In Oil-Rich Waters
THE United Nation’s top court has sided with Equatorial Guinea in a row with Gabon over three islands in potentially oil-rich waters. The.
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World Could Be Witnessing ‘Another Nakba’ In Palestine, UN Warns
THE world could be witnessing “another Nakba”, or the expulsion of Palestinians, a United Nations special committee has warned. The committee sounded the.
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Top United Nations Court Rejects Sudan’s Bid To Sue UAE For Genocide
THE UN’s top court has dismissed Sudan’s case against the UAE accusing the Gulf state of complicity in genocide. Sudan alleged the UAE.
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UN Warns Of ‘Unseen Level’ Of Suffering In Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade
UNITED Nations rights chief Volker Turk has called on the world to halt Gaza’s descent into a “new, unseen level” of “humanitarian catastrophe”,.
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UN Says Its Food Stocks In Gaza Completely ‘Depleted’ Amid Israeli Blockade
THE UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth.
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Sudan Crisis: 57 Killed In Darfur Clashes, Trapped Civilians Fear Bloodbath
CLASHES between Sudanese paramilitaries and the army have killed at least 57 civilians in the besieged Darfur city of El-Fasher, medical and activist.
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Humanitarian Communities In Turmoil As UN Shuts Operations In Nigeria
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) is to shut down its operations in Nigeria. News Point Nigeria report.
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Nigeria Set To Host 68th Meeting Of UN Tourism Commission For Africa
THE Federal Government of Nigeria has confirmed its readiness to host the 68th meeting of the UN Tourism Commission for Africa (CAF) in.
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Sudan Paramilitaries Kill At Least 100 People In Darfur Attack, UN Says
THE Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has carried out a two-day attack on famine-hit camps for displaced people in the Darfur region.
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UN Nigerian Officials Jitter As Aid Chief Announces 20% Staff Capacity Cut
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has listed Nigeria and nine other countries as countries to be affected as.
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UN Says 36 Israeli Attacks Killed Only Palestinian Women, Children In Gaza
THE United Nations says Palestinian women and children were the only fatalities in at least three dozen Israeli air strikes on Gaza since.
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UN Says 100 Children Killed Or Injured In Gaza Every Day
THE United Nations says at least 100 children have been killed or injured every day in Gaza since the strikes resumed on March.
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UN Appalled By ‘Credible Reports’ Of Sudan Civilian Killings
THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said he is appalled at what he described as “credible reports” of extrajudicial killings of.
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Israeli Claim That There’s Enough Food In Gaza ‘Ridiculous’, UN Says
THE United Nations on Tuesday dismissed as “ridiculous” an assertion by Israel that there was enough food in the Gaza Strip to last.