All eyes on Gaza as aid teams retrieve first lifesaving relief in months
“Today will be crucial. Truckloads of lifesaving aid finally on move again,” said top UN aid relief coordinator Tom Fletcher.Hours earlier and in a...
Ill-Advised and Problematic — by Dr. Ron Daniels
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Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels
I hold Governor Wes Moore in high regard as a capable public servant...
Biodiversity loss demands urgent global action, says UN chief
In a message marking Thursday’s International Day for Biological Diversity, the UN chief raised alarm over the “lightning pace” of degradation of the natural...
Four children dead in ‘horrific’ attack on school bus in Baluchistan: UNICEF
The attack which left others wounded, took place in the district of Khuzdar, about 250 kilometres south of Quetta, Balochistan’s provincial capital. The area...
Haiti: Displaced children face sexual violence risk
Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, gang violence has permeated the capital Port-au-Prince and expanded into other regions, displacing over one...
UN alarmed after warning shots fired at foreign diplomats in the West Bank
Media reports said soldiers fired warning shots near the diplomats, who were on an official visit to view humanitarian conditions around the camp where...
Urgent action needed to ‘pull Yemen back from the brink of catastrophe’
Tom Fletcher said that with “time and treatment” Noor was able to recover fully.But what happens to a child such as Noor when treatments...
Champions for Change: World football teams up with UN development goals
The Football for the Goals Forum brought UN leaders and some of the top voices in the world’s most popular sport to UN Headquarters...
Historic shifts offer Syria a path forward
The United States, European Union and United Kingdom have taken steps to ease long-standing sanctions – moves that, according to UN officials, could pave...
Scam centres are a ‘human rights crisis’, independent experts warn
It’s believed that hundreds of thousands of trafficked individuals of various nationalities are forced to carry out fraud in the centres located across Cambodia,...
Gaza: Aid trucks still waiting for Israeli green light inside enclave
Existing supplies of basic necessities have been running dangerously low and on Wednesday the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said that its nutrition stocks to prevent...
He Embraced Socialism and Class Struggle toward end of life
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Leading Pan-African and advocate for African unity
By Milton Allimadi —
Malcolm X—who would be very proud of Ibrahim Traore, the Pan-African president...
Malcolm’s Mama Lit His Fire
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
Malcolm X, the fearless leader that the actor and activist Ossie Davis described as one of Harlem’s...
‘Silence is complicity,’ warns activist who fled DPR Korea
When they eventually did, her mother said to her, “If you are going to die anyway, better to be shot crossing the two-mile border...
UN life-saving aid allowed to trickle into Gaza as needs mount
He stressed that the assistance must be delivered swiftly and directly to those most in need.He told journalists in New York that UN humanitarians...
90 days to economic collapse: UN and experts sound alarm over security at sea
Addressing a high-level debate of the Security Council, António Guterres said that oceans and seas are “sending a clear SOS,” as maritime spaces face...
‘Keep the lights on’ for women and girls caught up in crisis
The UN’s reproductive health agency, UNFPA, has been working to assess the impact of recent steep funding cuts, warning that from the Democratic Republic...
AI threatens one in four jobs – but transformation, not replacement, is the real...
One in four jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to what’s known as generative artificial intelligence – or Generative AI – according to a new joint...
Afghanistan’s returnees at a crossroads between collapse and recovery
Since September 2023, some three million Afghans have returned – many having been forcibly deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran. Often, they arrive exhausted,...
IOM and 115 Aid Organizations Call for Immediate Action to Pull Yemen Back From...
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Geneva/ Sana'a, 20 May 2025 – After more than a decade of severe crisis and conflict, people in Yemen are facing...
Nations adopt historic pledge to guard against future pandemics
The effects of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic are still being felt. Around seven million people died, health systems were overwhelmed, and the global economy...
Drone strikes on civilian infrastructure in Port Sudan must end: UN expert
“These ongoing attacks on critical infrastructure are putting lives at risk, worsening the humanitarian crisis, and violating basic human rights,” said Radhouane Nouicer, the...
UN faces deepening financial crisis, urges members to pay up
With a growing shortfall in contributions – $2.4 billion in unpaid regular budget dues and $2.7 billion in peacekeeping – the UN has been...
Home-bound Syrians find few of the basics needed to survive
Hopes rose last week in Damascus when fuel prices dropped instantly following Donald Trump’s move to end punitive sanctions.But after more than 13 years...
