As more than 423,000 displaced Palestinians return to their homes in northern Gaza following the opening of key roads, UN agencies are scaling up humanitarian aid and addressing the growing risks pose ...

Israeli legislation banning the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is due to enter into force in the coming hours, bringing fundamental changes to its operations in the Occupied Palestinian Terr ...

Rwanda has accused South Africa of siding with genocidal forces in the DRC after Pretoria warned that another attack on members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) would be considered a decl ...

The African Union Peace and Security Council has expressed “grave concern” over the increased tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda following the flareup of fighting ...

As UN agencies reported “relative calm” on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces cou ...

UNAIDS has welcomed Wednesday’s emergency waiver from the United States Secretary of State that will allow the continuation of life-saving HIV treatment funded by the US across 55 countries worldwide ...

The East African Community (EAC) has unveiled a Single Customs Territory (SCT), a centralized platform, designed to facilitate the seamless clearance of goods at the various ports of entry within th ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Ulisses De Mesquita Gomes of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Organization S ...

The daughter of former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma will face charges of inciting terrorism that led to the deaths of 354 people in July 2021 after her father was jailed ...

The withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) becomes effective on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, but the ECOWAS Authority says the doors of t ...

More than twenty international charity organisations have again flagged the appalling conditions in which about one million people who have been forcibly displaced to Chad from Sudan live saying they ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said his country is “deeply troubled” by escalation of the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC and called for an immediate ceasefire in the fighting ...