GENEVA – The United Nations is condemning the deadly attack on a village in the disputed oil-rich area of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan Wednesday. It is calling for calm in the wake of the attack by armed gunmen, …
GENEVA – The United Nations says urgent action must be taken to halt an invasion of locusts that is threatening food crops and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa.
A locust invasion is swarming across parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and …
GENEVA – U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrives in Bunia, in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday at the start of a five-day official visit to the country.
The main focus of the high commissioner’s visit is …
Burkina Faso’s Parliament voted Tuesday to provide local volunteers with “light weapons” after a terrorist attack on two villages left 32 civilians dead.
No one has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack that the government blames on a “terrorist group.”
“These …
Efforts aimed at redressing gender inequalities and socioeconomic inequities can mitigate factors that fuel the HIV epidemic.
In a study in Eswatini, cash transfers aimed at keeping adolescent girls and young women in school and giving them greater financial independence …