World News in Brief: UN spotlights education aid solution, Sri Lanka prison violence, humanitarian...
At the same time, low and middle-income countries are projected to lose 30 per cent of aid to education between 2023 and 2027. Development...
Security Council LIVE: ‘Lost continuity of knowledge’ on Iran’s nuclear programme since US-Israel attacks,...
Since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February, there has been a “lost continuity of knowledge” on Tehran’s nuclear...
South Sudan: UN acts ahead of drought to protect thousands
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of South Sudan on Friday activated the country’s first-ever drought anticipatory plan targeting more than 65,000 people in Budi and...
New cholera outbreak alert for Sudan’s war-weary communities
“Cholera is back and it’s affecting several states, mainly in the western part of the country, the Darfurs and the Kordofans,” said Dr Shible Sahbani,...
Aid cuts leave at least one million women and girls without vital support
The warning comes in a new report, Beyond the Breaking Point, which finds that those providing essential services to women and girls are being...
Diplomats go virtual to witness Gaza displacement site up close
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Ramiz Alakbarov, and his deputy, Suzanna Tkalec, led the online visit to the site in Al Mawasi, Khan...
Remembering the Srebrenica genocide: ‘Fear is all that kept me moving’
The massacre in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was the largest in Europe since the Holocaust and among the darkest chapters in the Balkan wars that erupted following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. The...
World must move faster on Ebola response for DR Congo: UN relief chief
Mr. Fletcher warned that while Ituri province remains the centre of the outbreak, the virus is spreading to other provinces due to conflict and...
Peak heat in Europe just broke historic 1970s records
“Heatwaves like this are what we expect to see in a changing climate,” said John Kennedy, head of climate information at World Meteorological Organization...
UNCF Launches National Campaign to Strengthen HBCU Infrastructures
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Public asked to reach out to bi-partisan members of Congress
By Hazel Trice Edney —
UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is asking the...
Use of explosive weapons ‘must stop’ in eastern DR Congo: Türk
The most recent conflict in the eastern DRC began in 2021 when the Rwandan-backed and Tutsi-led M23 militia took up arms against the Congolese...
US-Iran war leaves shipping at near-standstill in Hormuz again
Echoing UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s alarm at the resumption of strikes and counterstrikes between the US and Iran, UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council Member...
Security Council LIVE: ‘Urgent de-escalation’ needed now in Ukraine amid spike in civilian deaths
The Security Council must use every tool and diplomatic channel to reach an urgent de-escalation, Rosemary DiCarlo, chief of UN political and peacebuilding affairs,...
HBCUs Are Still the Vanguard
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
This week I am thinking about what it means to go back to school in a country...
Srebrenica survivors warn of genocide denial while safeguarding memory of the dead
The Bosniak Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in a designated area in the eastern European town which had been...
Can Journalists Be Sued for Reporting Evidence
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By Milton Allimadi —
The First Amendment was never intended to protect the powerful from public scrutiny. It was written to protect...
Restoring dignity: Senegalese surgeon and Burundian foundation win reproductive health awards
The UN's sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, announced on Wednesday that the individual award will go to Professor Serigne Magueye Gueye of Senegal,...
UN Syria inquiry presses for answers on missing detainees after wide-ranging visit
Monia Ammar and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria met victims, government officials and civil society groups between...
US-Iran war: Renewed attacks in Strait of Hormuz prompts another global energy alert
Amid reports that three merchant vessels were hit along with Iranian targets, IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez condemned “reckless attacks” in the past two days...
‘Help is coming’: UN relief chief briefs on Venezuela quake recovery
“People are in shock and despair; formal meetings are not enough,” he said in a virtual briefing from the capital, Caracas, alongside representatives of...
Sudan: ‘El Obeid must not become the next crime scene’ warn UN investigators
The mission found “indicators of a genocidal path” in a report released in February. The new report builds on the earlier findings by providing additional...
Security Council LIVE: Open debate on sexual violence in conflict
Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in...
Open Letters From Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel Publishes Highlighting Research Framework Connecting Science, Mathematics, and...
Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel Publishes Open Letters Highlighting Research Framework Connecting Science, Mathematics, and Biblical Creation
The announcement...
Open Letters From Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel Highlighting Research Framework Connecting Science, Mathematics, and Biblical...
Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel Publishes Open Letters Highlighting Research Framework Connecting Science, Mathematics, and Biblical Creation
The announcement...
