THE UN Security Council has sanctioned six senior members of armed groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where…
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The UN’s top court Friday rejected South Africa’s request to put more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened…
VENEZUELA’s foreign minister said Thursday he had decided to “suspend the activities” of the UN rights office in the country…
THE United Nations said on Friday it estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says it is receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan, where a war…
NIGERIA will defend its human rights record before the United Nations Human Rights Council sitting in Geneva, Switzerland today (Tuesday).…
THE United Nations said on Saturday the Gaza war was “staining humanity” on the eve of its 100th day as…
THE Somali armed group al-Shabab has seized a United Nations helicopter, along with about eight people, both passengers and crew,…
MANY displaced Gazans are living “in the open, in the parks,” Juliette Touma of the UN relief agency for Palestinian…
UN peacekeepers are finishing their withdrawal from Mali on Sunday, after a long-running mission lasting a decade. Minusma – the…
THE UN and the World Food Programme on Friday warned that a lack of funding could lead to the imminent…
THE UN mission in Mali officially ended a 10-year deployment in the country on Monday, its spokesperson said, in a…
A SENIOR United Nations (UN) aid official has warned that half of Gaza’s population is starving, as fighting there continues.…
AT LEAST 40 civilians were killed in a militant attack in the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo at the…
TRANSLATORS who work for German peacekeepers in Mali have told the BBC they fear for their lives as the UN…
THOUSANDS of people are trapped in flooded areas following heavy rains in Somalia’s Jubbaland state, the UN’s humanitarian agency says.…
UN aid agencies say they have begun to significantly reduce their operations in the Gaza Strip because they have almost…
THE lives of at least 120 newborn babies on incubators in war-torn Gaza’s hospitals are at risk as fuel runs…
THE UN says it has pulled its peacekeepers out of a camp in northern Mali earlier than planned, because “their…
THE Federal Government has handed a 30-day ultimatum to the United Nations and other international agencies in Nigeria within which…