UN News Today 21 April 2025 |
UN chief hails Pope Francis as ‘a transcendent voice for peace’UN Secretary-General António Guterres has joined the world in mourning the death of His...
The $300,000 scam that entrapped a US-based woman from Thailand |
A Thai woman has been talking about how she was tricked into handing over more than $300,000 to a criminal gang that entrapped her...
UN chief hails Pope Francis as ‘a transcendent voice for peace’
Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was elected to the papacy in March 2013. He was the first priest from the Americas region to lead...
‘Endemic trauma’ of Sudanese people as country marks two years of war |
The people of Sudan are facing “endemic trauma” as the African country marks two years of a civil war, according to a documentary photographer...
Myanmar: Thousands remain in crisis weeks after deadly earthquakes
The earthquakes – which hit central Myanmar on 28 March – killed at least 3,700 people, injured 4,800 more and left 129 still missing....
Mine action critical to stability in Lebanon |
The recent escalation of violence between Lebanon and Israel has left widespread devastation, and many unexploded weapons in residential and agricultural areas.These hidden threats...
Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs
The UN agency is sounding the alarm following the release of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which uses a scale...
Sudan: No respite for civilians amid unrelenting war and aid access barriers
Into its third year, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has created the world’s largest displacement...
Situation in South Sudan risks escalating into civil war amid rise in misinformation |
The situation in South Sudan remains precarious, with the threat of renewed civil war looming large.A growing concern, according to Lieutenant General Mohan Subramanian,...
Libya’s fragile transition plagued by deepening economic and political divides
Nearly 15 years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and the emergence of rival administrations in 2014, the country remains divided, with the internationally...
UN News Today 17 April 2025 |
Gaza war grinds on and journalists still banned from reporting: UNRWAIt’s been more than 18 months since war in Gaza began, and in that...
Gaza faces deepening crisis as aid stocks dwindle
More than 500,000 people are reported to have been newly displaced since 18 March, many of them uprooted multiple times due to ongoing military...
South Sudan on the brink as peace deal falters, UN warns
Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, warned that a political standoff between President Salva Kiir and former First Vice...
UN News Today 16 April 2025 |
Member States reach agreement on pandemic treaty: WHOMember States of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed a draft treaty to keep the world...
World News in Brief: Relief supplies for Myanmar, invest in Haiti, child migrant deaths...
The flight was chartered by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and delivered tents and household items for some 16,000 people.Myanmar continues to reel from...
UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent
They urged greater collaboration between governments, civil society and regional organizations to create a system that would compensate Africa and the African diaspora for...
UN News Today 15 April 2025 |
External flow of weapons into Sudan must end, insists UN’s GuterresTwo years to the day since Sudan’s brutal war erupted between rival generals who...
Sudan: 15 million children require humanitarian assistance after two years of war
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 15 million boys and girls require support, up from 7.8 million at the start of 2023 –...
UNICEF chief in Kharkiv describes the devastating aftermath of Sumy attacks |
After a deadly Russian strike on Sumy, Ukraine, on Sunday — which killed at least 34 people, including two children, and injured over 100...
UN News Today 14 April 2025 |
Sudan: UN chief condemns killings amid gains by rebel forces in DarfurIn Sudan, scores of civilians have been reported killed in attacks on the town...
UN forum on People of African Descent examines reparations and AI challenge
Organised by the UN human rights office, the week-long session “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of...
Myanmar’s people still face daily aftershocks and trauma, say UN aid teams |
Myanmar’s earthquake catastrophe is now known to have killed more than 3,600 people and injured more than 5,000.The toll is still rising, says the...
Sudan war: Crisis point for children trapped in conflict zones |
As the war in Sudan nears its third devastating year the situation for children has reached a critical point, with an estimated 825,000 children...
Resilience in the face of thirst: Trucking water in war-ravaged Gaza
Every day, he drives his water truck through the Strip, filling up empty tanks and vessels.Our camera accompanied Alloush on a recent arduous mission...
