Hundreds of millions of dollars are needed urgently to save people most at risk from hunger as a food crisis breaks across the northern regions of Nigeria, the United Nations has said. The UN needs $396 million to help plug the huge “hunger gap” in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, its representatives told journalists. The […]
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Efforts made towards achieving eight Sustainable Development Goals have suffered a devastating setback due to adverse socio-economic impacts of conflict and war, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has revealed. The organisation stated that since 2015, the increase in the number of undernourished people globally has “stalled or […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo government is appealing to the African Union’s Peace and Security Council to support its demand for the President of the United Nations Security Council to examine the report by United Nations experts on Rwandan aggression against DR Congo. DR Congo wants the UN Security Council to “draw all the necessary […]
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A group of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Beni territory of Butembo and Lubero in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, have announced they are suspending their collaboration with the United Nations forces MONUSCO. In a declaration last weekend after an evaluation of the socio-security situation of the Grand North, including Beni, Butembo and […]
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The United Nations has said it is working towards a public trial for the UN peacekeepers who, Sunday, July 31, 2022, killed two civilians in Kasindi, at the border with Uganda in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to UN sources, a tribunal from Tanzania would be deployed on DR Congo territory to organise […]
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Four persons died on Wednesday, July 27, during demonstrations against United Nations Blue Helmets in Uvira, the second largest town in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The victims died as a high-tension electric wire fell on them during a stampede after police dispersed protesters with gunshots. “In the morning, a group […]
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The United Nations has verified over 67,000 grave violations against children in conflict-affected areas of West and Central Africa, accounting for the second-highest number of verified violations since 2005. According to a report titled ‘25 years of children and armed conflict: Taking action to protect children in war,’ more than 7,600 children have been verified […]
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A coalition of UN human rights experts has called for measures to address and eliminate child labour. The experts made the call during the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in South Africa. They stressed the need for urgent action because the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, food insecurity, and humanitarian and climate […]
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Seven agencies of the United Nations (UN) operating in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria, have been accused of tax evasion by the state’s Board Of Internal Revenue Service BO-IRS. The BO-IRS said, on Wednesday, that the seven humanitarian agencies include the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), […]
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There were 801 documented incidents of human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo during Nov. 2021, a UN agency said. According to the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the figure represents an increase of 61per cent compared to Oct. 2021 when 498 human rights abuses […]
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The United Nations (UN) has said it is working closely with international partners to build civilian institutional capacity to confront the persistent challenges in Africa. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the UN said this during a virtual meeting on the Africa Regional Media Hub held on Friday, Oct. 29. Thomas-Greenfield also said the UN is […]
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A group of United Nations experts on Wednesday, Oct. 27, called on the Central African Republic government to “put an end to its relations with Russian paramilitary groups, in particular the Wagner private security group, accused of harassing and violently intimidating civilians.” “We are extremely preoccupied by the acts of intimidation and recent information concerning […]
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