The conflict in Sudan is taking an “even more dangerous turn for civilians”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday ...

Friday marked the opening ceremony of the UN General Assembly-mandated International Year of Peace and Trust, 2025, at UN Headquarters in New York – an initiative designed to foster a culture of peace ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and UN aid coordination office, OCHA, have expressed grave concerns over the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has disp ...

Film star Cristiana Dell’Anna travelled to Geneva on Friday to highlight her film about the age-old dangers confronting migrants and the astonishing Italian missionary who worked in the slums of New ...

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) on Friday welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, pledging to scale up aid delivery across the stricken e ...

Libya has for the first time been allowed by the United Nations to reinvest proceeds from the $70 billion of assets bought with its oil wealth since sanctions were imposed in 2011 ...

The governments of Sudan and South Sudan are taking steps to defuse rising tension between them and avoid escalations over the killing of an unspecified number of South Sudanese in central Sudan and a ...

Last week, several prominent scientific organisations confirmed what had been predicted for months: 2024 was the hottest year on record ...

UN aid teams in northern Mozambique are doing their utmost to provide help to communities hit by two deadly cyclones in a month ...

The US Administration on Thursday announced sanctions against the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, accusing him of frustrating peace efforts and prolonging th ...

In the wake of Wednesday’s announcement of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas due to come into effect on Sunday, displaced Gazans – ground down by 15 months of devastating conflict – have told ...

Following reports of suspected viral haemorrhagic fever cases in Tanzania, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ramped up its readiness to assist the Government in investigating and responding to t ...