China is offering developing countries access to its earth observation satellite system for crop monitoring, CropWatch, in partnership with the…
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Some of the measures adopted by governments to confront the COVID-19 crisis may offer other important benefits in the longer…
After two decades of progress, there are growing concerns within the United Nations that child labour will spike as a…
The government of Guinea-Bissau is receiving a United Nations support in its effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the…
The United Nations is calling for a $2.5 trillion aid package to enable developing countries to cushion the damaging effect…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has cried out about the damning effect of the raging coronavirus on children’s…
A Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Professor Ogugua Ikpeze says the Igbo nation can…
In 22 countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Libya, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen, 43 million people are currently vulnerable. For…
The men in naval uniforms charged into the Nigerian waterfront village of Okun Glass in the morning, chased out the…
The rising tide of internal displacement is currently a very big source of trouble for the United Nations. In a…
One in five countries will see per capita incomes stagnate or decline this year, according to the United Nations’ flagship…
More people are still migrating to other countries, especially those within their region, going by the World Migration Report 2020…
Nepal has launched a new Migration Profile that will help its workers to compete in global job markets. The Profile…
In tears, Lara* has recalled how her husband pulled out a real gun and pointed it at her when she…
The previous Saturday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) organised Baseball without Borders to celebrate integration at Argentina’s National Baseball…
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed have formally committed their organisations to work more closely…
The Ethiopian government with support from the United Nations, international and national non-governmental organisations as well as donors, have developed…
Deputy Chief of Staff of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Vincent Houver, has said that persons with disabilities are…
Recent figures are scarce but according to the United Nations, one in four women in the country experiences sexual abuse…
The United Nations is currently supporting the government of Chad to improve its border management and resolve conflicts linked to transhumance…
Fifteen-year-old Juliana (not real name) mother of a baby boy says if she had had the support of her family,…
The United Nations has reopened its building in Abuja, eight years after the property was destroyed in an attack by…
With ongoing airstrikes and ground attacks in multiple locations as the military operation entered its sixth day, the security situation…
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations says humanitarian impact in Syria remains difficult to…
Human Rights Watch is currently in league with a group of 170 nongovernmental organisations advocating for a global action to…
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday, disclosed that issues concerning the Biafran…
Burdened by the worsening migrants and refugees’ crises, two top agencies of the United Nations- the International Organisation for Migration…
The United Nations has rolled out a multi-billion naira humanitarian respond plan for 7.1 million victims of the undying Boko…
Anyone willing to consult the international law book on the subject of free speech will find it heavy with protections…
While the humanitarian situation in the capital Tripoli worsens for all civilians, some 3,300 migrants who remain detained in similar…