United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres departed New York for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday evening, 6 February. He arrived on Friday evening.On Saturday, 8 February, he attended a high-level breakfast on Gender Equality and Women’s Emp…

KIANGWE, KENYA In Kenya’s northeast Boni Forest, on the border with Somalia, schools that were closed for five years following attacks by militant group al-Shabab have reopened. But many children are still unable to attend classes, as few teachers are …

Early in the morning on 4 January, security forces carrying long, wooden sticks arrived outside the office of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the city of Agadez, Niger: 600 or more asylum seekers, mostly from Sudan, were gathered in the street in fron…

Note: Owing to the liquidity crisis impacting our Organization, only a partial summary of statements made in today’s meetings of the Commission for Social Development is available at this time. The complete summary will be issued later as Press Releas…

Investigation into the Learner Transport Scheme (LTS) in Beaufort West finalisedEvery school day the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) transports over 61 000 learners on 567 LTS routes across the province. The LTS policy provides for the transpo…