2020

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Friday expressed widespread fear of starvation as a result of the emerging Corona pandemic (Covid-19). “We are sounding the alarm, we are afraid of a major crisis,” said Wilt…

Medical sanctions by the United States government against the Islamic Republic amount to an "unprecedented threat" to global public health, says a senior Iranian diplomat, urging the international community to react in earnest to…

The employees of the Yemeni Oil Company, its unions and their affiliated organizations organized a protest stand today in front of the United Nations office in Sana'a, on Friday, entitled "The siege and aggression is more deadly than all…

The new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 40,000 people in Europe, more than three-quarters of them in Italy, Spain and France, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources at 1620 GMT on Friday.   With a total of…

The shelling attack launched by Saudi-led coalition militants has caused a new massacre against civilians in Taiz, in addition to several war crimes, since the beginning of the Saudi-led and US-backed Saudi-led led coalition war in March…

U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed two civilians and injured three in February, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Wednesday, in a statement that raised questions over U.S. investigations of such allegations. A U.S.…

COVID-19 will be responsible for pushing a further 8.3 million people in the Arab region into poverty, according to a new policy brief issued on Wednesday by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia…

When face masks stocks began running low in the Czech Republic, minority communities, including the country’s Roma population, were quick to respond, rallying to make fresh supplies, with the aim of slowing the spread of COVID-19.…

The United Nations is working closely with governments in the Caribbean to protect the region’s most vulnerable people from the impact of the deadly coronavirus, COVID-19. For this latest in our occasional series, Didier Trebucq,…

The UN system in Nigeria and its partners are working to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus disease in some of the most vulnerable areas in the country: communities and camps housing millions of internally displaced…