The UN Security Council on Monday strongly condemned an attack on UN peacekeepers in Mali, which killed three peacekeepers from Chad and injured three others. In a press statement, the members of the Security Council [Read More]
Clean water and fuel are in demand to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti as humanitarian agencies scale up support, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday. “We live in an absolutely dramatic situation,” Guterres [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for efforts to renew the commitment to a better world for all in his message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which falls on Oct. [Read More]
Rising food and fuel prices have led to growing civil unrest in Haiti, the World Food Programme (WFP) and other UN agencies have warned. Jean-Martin Bauer, country director in Haiti for the WFP, told a [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the Group of 20 (G20) to change course and steer a global economic recovery. Guterres made this appeal in a letter to G20 finance ministers and central [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he will soon launch a plan for universal early-warning coverage for climate disasters. In a video message for the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Guterres said climate [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed a deal between Lebanon and Israel on the resolution of their maritime boundary dispute, said his spokesman. “The secretary-general welcomes the announcements that the governments of Lebanon and Israel [Read More]
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said Thursday that the renewal of a truce agreement that has just expired remains possible and called for the engagement of the parties. The truce in Yemen, first [Read More]
The global economy is “dangerously close” to a recession, as inflation remains elevated, interest rates rise, and growing debt burden hits the developing world, World Bank President David Malpass said Thursday. “We’ve lowered our 2023 [Read More]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday announced that it has reached an agreement with the Swiss government and the Sursock Palace Association to finance the rehabilitation of the Sursock Palace, [Read More]
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