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U.S. Representative Chris Smith, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives and a leading congressional critic of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has told RFE/RL that "it is time to be thinking about a tribunal" to bring the long-...

In Numbers143 mt of food assistance distributed in March to 6,790 DRC refugees in the province of Luanda Norte244,000 children under 5 screened for malnutrition in Luanda Province in February-March, and around 6,500 received supplements for moderate ac...

In Numbers6.135 mt food assistance distributedUS$ 1.26 million cash-based transfers madeUS$ 405,906 six-month (May – October 2021) net funding requirements145,938 people assisted in APRIL 2021Operational UpdatesIn April, WFP disbursed ZMW 24.7 million ...

South Africa will provide tons of maize meal to the people of Zimbabwe who were affected by severe flooding caused by the tropical cyclone Idai weather system in 2019.According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Minis...

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for Africa Day, observed on 25 May:This year’s Africa Day highlights arts, culture and heritage as levers for building the Africa we want. Africa’s rich and diverse cultural and natural herit...

The new Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations, Harold Adlai Agyeman, presented his credentials to the Secretariat today.Before his latest appointment, Mr. Agyeman was Director of the Administration Bureau in the Ministry of Foreign Af...

Ethiopia has accused the United States of “meddling” in its internal affairs after the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on Ethiopian officials whom the U.S. accuses of fueling the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region. “If such a resolve to meddle in ou...

President Cyril Ramaphosa, at the invitation of Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica, will participate at the “A Conversation with Africa” webinar to mark Africa Day on Tuesday, 25 May 2021. The theme of the webinar is 'A Conversation with Africa: ...