GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency, the UNHCR, is condemning escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed hundreds of civilians and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in search of safety.More than 130 arme...
UNITED NATIONS, UN humanitarians in South Sudan condemned the new attack on an aid compound where a worker was injured and goods stolen, a UN spokesman said.Interim UN Humanitarian Coordinator Peter Van der Auweraert strongly condemned the Wednesday Ja...
The Conference reiterated the critical need to address growing humanitarian needs, the root causes and the interconnected dimensions of the Lake Chad Basin crisis and strengthen the resilience of millions of people affected.Participants recognised that...
TRIPOLI, The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily called for international support to help Libya overcome its crisis.Bathily made the remarks after attending a consultative meeting of the Arab foreign ministers...
CAIRO — Armed men opened fire on a bus station in southern Sudan Monday, officials said, killing at least four people and prompting authorities to declare a monthlong state of emergency.Officials in South Kordofan province said the attack in the provin...
I would like to extend my deepest thanks to the Government of Niger for hosting this conference, and to the generous support we have received from Germany, Norway and Lake Chad Basin Commission as well as from our co-convenors UNDP.Thank you also to th...
The Commission has allocated €102.5 million in humanitarian aid to help vulnerable communities in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in the Lake Chad region. Violence in the region, where the civil...
The total population of concern (PoC) to UNHCR in West and Central Africa (WCA) relates to the people UNHCR is mandated to protect and assist. It includes those who have been forcibly displaced; those who have returned home within recent years; those w...
Sydney: Sydney's trains will completely shut down for four days from Thursday as the network's employees are set to go on strike amid a pay dispute with the state government, the government of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Tuesday...
Luanda: The president of Portugal's FC Porto, André Villas-Boas, arrived in Luanda on Tuesday morning for a three-day working visit aimed at strengthening institutional relationships with Angola's sports bodies. Villas-Boas expressed the emotional sig...
Luanda: The search for additional victims from a boat sinking incident that occurred last Saturday off Luanda Island has officially concluded as of 6 pm on Tuesday, according to Wilson Baptista, the spokesman for the Civil Protection and Fire Services...
Ouagadougou—The nationalization of the Commercial Bank of Burkina (BCB) and the 2024 Hajj preparations were prominent topics in local newspapers on Thursday. "The government nationalizes the BCB," headlined the private newspaper Le Pays, reporting tha...
JUBA, South Sudan — Ethiopia's Foreign Affairs Minister Taye Atske Selassie congratulated Ramadan Mohammed Abdallah Goc on his recent appointment as the South Sudanese Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister.
According to Ethiopian N...
Cybercrime police have arrested a man suspected of making death threats on social media against one of Burkina Faso's leading journalists, authorities said.Last month, a 35-year-old trader issued "defamatory threats, inciting violence against the perso...
