Amina Mohammed, who served as a Minister of Environment under President Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that his victory over former vice-president Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential poll, was “a miracle”.
Mohammed, who is now the United Nations’ Deputy Secretary-General, stated this in an...
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Amina Mohammed, has claimed a woman will likely succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
The former Minister of Environment stated this on Saturday, while speaking at the Mo Ibrahim governance weekend in Abidjan....
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Kenya has accused The United Nations of pouring millions of dollars to Somalia’s Al Shabaab.
Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau has said the UN was giving 10 per cent of humanitarian aid to terrorists to grant safe passage of food and other supplies in war-torn regions …...
A new joint United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) report has revealed the African countries with the worst food crises in the world. According to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), published on April 2, 2019, the most hungry people can be found in
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The United Nations has warned that the threat of a nuclear weapon being used is now “higher than it has been in generations.” The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, gave the warning on Wednesday in New York, in a meeting convened in support of …
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New York – The UN has said that no fewer than 32,000 Cameroonians fleeing insecurity and violence are currently taking refuge in Nigeria. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Cameroon, Ms Allegra Baiocchi, while presenting the 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan for the country, described...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said more than 80,000 Nigerians have been displaced due to ongoing violence in the North-East since November, 2018.
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In the last nine months of 2018, according to the United Nations, Palestinians – many of them children – were killed at the rate of around one a day while taking part in protests along Israel’s perimeter fence with Gaza about their right to return to ancestral homes. …
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About 76,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Rann are currently threatened by starvation following recent Boko Haram attacks which has forced humanitarian workers to flee the community, officials say.
On Monday, January 14, Boko Haram insurgents carried out a deadly attack on Rann...
The United Nations yesterday decried the conflict in North-east Nigeria, stating that Boko Haram attacks since November 2018 had caused over 43,000 persons to flee their homes with more than 32,000 taking refuge in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
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Two civil society groups, Access to Justice,AJ and the Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria, NOPRIN, have requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres to visit Nigeria as well as intervene in the alleged human rights violation in the country...
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Africa’s food import bill may surge to $110 billion by 2025, going by the current import reliance trend.
However, the African Union (AU), and the United Nations (UN), have canvassed unhindered trade integration among countries in the continent. Stakeholders, who gathered at the Africa Trade...
The unlawful detention, constant harassment, threats to life and intimidation media practitioners face across the globe is becoming more worrisome, and global, local groups and organisations have called on governments at all levels to ensure the safety of journalists.....
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Yemen is sliding fast toward what could become one of the worst famines in living memory, the UN’s top emergency relief official has warned.
The country is in “clear and present danger” of mass deaths from starvation, and as many as 14 million people – half the population …
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(GENEVA) — U.N. agencies are calling for an end to the practice in some countries of determining whether a girl or woman is a virgin through gynecological tests.
The World Health Organization, U.N. Women and the U.N. Human Rights office say the “medically unnecessary” tests have been...
The United Nations has earmarked the sum of $2.1 billion to be given out as grants to people affected by the humanitarian crisis in northeast Nigeria.
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told journalists in Abuja, on Sunday that the grants is to....
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday warned US President Donald Trump against "destroying" the United Nations.
"I believe that destroying something without having developed something new is extremely dangerous," Merkel said at a regional election …
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New York – Nigeria, Germany, Norway, and the United Nations have converged on Berlin Monday for a “pledging conference on Boko Haram”.
The Berlin Conference, holding from Sept. 3 to 4, is jointly organised by the three countries and the UN, and is one …
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The U.S. announced it was halting funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees after declaring the organization was "irredeemably flawed.".....
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About 2,051 Nigerians, who returned from Libya, have engaged in learning new trades between April 2017 and August 2018, the International Organisation for Migration has said.
The United Nations agency said 1,130 men and 921 women participated in business training in Lagos, Edo, Nassarawa, Kano...
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