Tag: UN Africa News

Climate change is not gender neutral, and for activist Fatima Muriel, this fact is all too real for thousands of women in her home country, Colombia. In 2017, disaster struck her hometown, the city of Mocoa in the department of Putumayo. Just before dawn on Saturday, April 1st, unusually heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides, which buried several neighborhoods… Read More

Guterres hails historic Convention banning violence and harassment at work A landmark international agreement banning violence and harassment in the workplace has been applauded by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, after it was adopted on Friday at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Centenary Conference in Geneva. In his speech to delegates in the Swiss city, Mr. Guterres congratulated Member States for… Read More

The call by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) comes three months since heavy fighting began between Government troops and forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern region. Full access must be granted now, to prevent things getting even worse, said UNHCR spokesperson Babar… Read More

In addition to the pandemic, the report shows that regional economies face “several downside risks”, ESCAP said in a press release, related to the faltering global supply chain, “rising inflationary pressures, prospects of increases in interest rates, shrinking fiscal space”, and the emerging global economic fallout from Russia’s continuing invasion of Ukraine. Economic growth in developing countries within the vast region,… Read More

World merchandise trade volume is expected to grow just 3 per cent this year, down from the previous forecast of 4.7 per cent, and 3.4 per cent in 2023, though these figures could be revised given the uncertainty surrounding the conflict.    The Russian invasion began on 24 February and WTO said the most immediate impact of the war has… Read More

Mr. Mwingwa was 17 when a rebel group – RCD Goma – convinced him to join its ranks, and fight against the then government of President Laurent Kabila, with promises of a life of prosperity. He was recruited in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, and started military training in the bush. After fighting for seven years, Mr. Mwingwa,… Read More

Issuing the alert, WFP said that the figure rose to 43 million when the Central African Republic was included in the food insecurity estimate. And the problem is not limited to rural areas as 16 million people living in urban spaces are also at risk of acute food insecurity with WFP warning that some six million children are undernourished in… Read More

El-Ghassim Wane, Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), was briefing the Security Council on Thursday on recent developments in the African country.  “For the sake of the Malian people”, he said, MINUSMA should be given all the resources it requires to “close the gap between what it is mandated to do, and what it can actually… Read More

“We honour their memory. We stand in awe of the resilience of the survivors. And we reflect on our failures as an international community,” Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message to a virtual event commemorating the 28th International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He reminded the participants that the genocide was… Read More

The West and Central Africa Nutrition working group fears at least 900,000 young lives could be at risk across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.  They said the number of under fives in the region expected to suffer from global acute malnutrition has never been so high, with a 27 per cent increase expected this year compared to 2021,… Read More