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Protesters desperate for ‘answers’ stormed United Nations base in DR Congo Monday evening after eight people were killed on Sunday night in an attack by armed fighters in the northeastern...
Naomi Oloyede, an 11-year-old Nigerian, has addressed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) international conference in Vienna. In a video the agency shared on Twitter, Oloyede was...
The United Nations (UN) initiated a probe against North Korea over allegation of illegally raising money for weapons of mass destruction programs through cyberattacks launched against 17 countries. The Asian country...
Edafe Okporo gushed about getting a chance to address leaders at the ‘highest diplomatic centre’ at the United Nations Headquarters. The former Pentecostal church Pastor turned Gay Rights Activist, said...
Former US President Ronald Reagan in a 1971 telephone call with then-President Richard Nixon described African delegates to the United Nations (UN) as “monkeys”. Mr Reagan was the Governor of California at the...
15 Ethiopian migrants have died after the boat trying to smuggle them into Yemen broke down and left them stranded at sea without food or water for a week, the U.N. migration...
Yukiya Amano, head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, was confirmed dead on Monday at the age of 72. The Japanese diplomat before his death, held the IAEA top job since...
Over 50% of Nigerians are now poorer, as revealed in a report released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative...
To honour the former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations Postal Administration of the Department of Operational Support issued a definitive stamp of US$1.30 on May 31. The...
His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano, has been announced as one of the United Nations new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates for 2019-2020. This was announced in New York...
Sunday’s tragic Ethiopian Airlines crash claimed the lives of all 157 aboard including 18 others working in Africa for United Nations’ related agencies. Staff members from at least five UN...
President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to nominate Kelly Knight Craft for the country’s vacant post of United Nations envoy. Ms Knight Craft is currently the US ambassador...
A new UN report on Tuesday says more than 30,000 people have fled the northeast Nigerian town of Rann and across the border to Cameroon in recent days because of...
The United Nations (UN) who lamented over increased Boko Haram attacks in the North-East region of Nigeria, has withdrawn 260 aid workers. The UN who lamented over the increased Boko Haram attacks which according...