– The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Sunday warned swarms of desert locusts are expected to descend on large parts of Ethiopia and Kenya in the coming weeks. In its latest situation […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged donor countries and banks to significantly increase the volume and predictability of their finance for climate change adaptation and resilience. “Donor countries and multilateral, regional and national […]
The World Food Program (WFP) has started building a fishing jetty in Somalia to help boost the fishing industry in the country, a senior United Nations envoy in Somalia said. James Swan, the United Nations […]
The Arab League (AL) welcomed on Sunday the understandings reached by the two parties of the conflict in Libya on unifying national institutions and sovereign positions. Two delegations from the High Council of State of […]
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Saturday welcomed the municipal election in the western city of Algaraboli, some 60 km east of the capital Tripoli. The Mission commended the efforts of the […]
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab urged on Friday the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to help Lebanon in its fight against COVID-19, the National News Agency reported. Diab asked Guterres in a phone call to […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye discussed on Friday reviving the stalled peace process with Tor Wennesland, the new UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process. Ishtaye said in a press statement that he held […]
The director-general of the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday said the coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the need for the world to strengthen agriculture and food systems. Qu Dongyu, a former […]
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Sunday said that more than 58,000 Ethiopian refugees fled into neighboring Sudan amid military confrontation in Ethiopia’s northernmost Tigray region. A total of 58,612 Ethiopian refugees have been […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was saddened by Wednesday’s violence and chaos in Washington as U.S. Congress was counting elector votes for last year’s presidential election, said his spokesman. “The secretary-general is saddened by the […]
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