Dar, Djibouti Ports Beat Mombasa in New World Bank Ranking
Daily News
THE Dar es Salaam Port has climbed up by 49 places in the World Bank's latest ranking on the most efficient ports globally. Read more »
Social Protection System Vital to Help Ensure Peace, National Unity in Ethiopia - World Bank
ENA
The implementation of social protection programs in Ethiopia plays vital role to sustaining peace and stability as well as consolidating national unity in the country, World Bank… Read more »
Trafficking in the Sahel - Guns, Gas, and Gold
UN News
Chili peppers, fake medicine, fuel, gold, guns, humans, and more are being trafficked via millennia-old trade routes crisscrossing the Sahel, and the UN and partners are trying out… Read more »
MSF Facilities Looted, Medical Activities Impeded By Violence in Sudan [press release]
MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the unacceptable harassment of our staff and the violent looting and occupation of our medical premises and supported… Read more »
UN Urges Sudan Rivals to Engage in Dialogue As 7-Day Ceasefire Starts
VOA
A weeklong cease-fire in Sudan went into effect late Monday as witnesses in the capital, Khartoum, reported some clashes. Read more »
IMF Rates Malawi Poorly On First Review of Extended Credit Facility Qualification
Nyasa Times
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has poorly rated Malawi on the first review of the Malawi staff monitored program, the first step towards the qualification for extended… Read more »
Lydia Mugambe Appointed Judge of UN's International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
Nile Post
The Secretary General of United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres has appointed Uganda's Lady Justice Lydia Mugambe as a judge of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal… Read more »
World Must Be Ready to Respond to Next Pandemic - WHO Chief
UN News
Although COVID-19 may no longer be a global public health emergency, countries must still strengthen response to the disease and prepare for future pandemics and other threats, the… Read more »
Noma Survivors Shine a Light On Neglected Disease [press release]
MSF
In many ways, Muhammadu, Mulikat and Dahiru have little in common. They were born in different corners of Nigeria (Yobe state in the northeast, Lagos in the southwest and Niger… Read more »
Peacekeeper Named UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year
UN News
A Ghanaian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) will receive the 2022 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award, it… Read more »
South African Opera Star Pretty Yende Appointed As WHO Goodwill Ambassadors for Arts and Health
WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) is delighted to announce the appointment of internationally acclaimed artists Renée Fleming and Pretty Yende as Goodwill Ambassadors for… Read more »
WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At WHO Walk the Talk - the Health for All Challenge - 21 May 2023 [press release]
WHO
Your Excellency Mauro Poggia, President of the Grand Council of the Republic and Canton of Geneva; Read more »
Unicef Alert Over 'Sickening' Levels of Sexual Violence in Eastern DR Congo
UN News
The UN Children's Fund is calling for an urgent increase in funding to help tackle an escalating number of cases of sexual violence against children and women in the eastern… Read more »
Extreme Weather Caused Two Million Deaths Over Last 50 Years - World Meteorological Organisation
UN News
Over two million deaths and $4.3 trillion in economic losses; that's the impact of a half-century of extreme weather events turbo-charged by man-made global warming, the World… Read more »
UN Chief - Warring Nations Must Protect Civilians
VOA
The U.N. Secretary-General said Tuesday that the world is failing to live up to its commitments to protect civilians, an obligation that is preserved in international humanitarian… Read more »