2020

Outstanding issues related to Syria’s initial declaration of its chemical weapons stockpile and programme cannot be considered “accurate and complete”, the head of the world body monitoring States’ implementation of the …

The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, slams the levels of financial support for children allocated by high-income countries during the pandemic as totally inadequate, in a child poverty report issued on Friday.…

Amidst “disturbing reports” from Ethiopians fleeing to Sudan, the UN refugee agency called on Friday for “unfettered access to Tigray in order to reach people in need”. Babar Baloch, spokesperson for the…

UN humanitarians issued a fresh alert on Friday for war-torn Yemen, warning that time is running out to avoid famine in the country. Out of two million children who need treatment for acute malnutrition, 360,000 are at risk of dying…

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed just how important it is for all countries to have strong health systems that provide the entire population with quality services when and where they need them, UN Secretary-General António…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global solidarity and greater international cooperation, and must be turned into an opportunity for fundamental change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a keynote…

Eritrean authorities on Friday released 60 Yemeni fishermen nearly a year after they were arrested near international waters in the Red Sea, Almawqea Post reported. The fishermen confirmed that the Eritrean authorities refused to…

A Reuters statistics showed that more than 70.52 million people were infected with the emerging coronavirus worldwide, while the total deaths from the virus reached one million and 598,967. Cases of the virus have been recorded in more…

Hundreds of students have been missing ever since bandits, armed with assault rifles, attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state late on Friday, Reuters reported. The gunmen stormed the Government Science…

The Secretary-General of SCMCHA , Abdul Mohsen Tawoos, discussed  with UNICEF representative in Yemen Philip Dudamel the mechanism for implementing the ninth phase of the cash transfer project. At the meeting, which was in the…