The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
DRC: Dr Denis Mukwege put under UN protection
Dr Denis Mukwege has been placed under the security of United Nations forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo after receiving death threats. Mukwege won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his work in…
Breaking: Former Rwandan minister outlines her mission towards…
Agnes Kalibata, the former Rwandan Minister for Agriculture, has been tasked with leading the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit. In an interview with UN News, she outlined her imaginative and prescient for a modified international…
Four countries at risk of famine – United…
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a danger of famine and tremendous meals insecurity in four international locations affected through conflict — Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria, and South Sudan. In a notice to…
DRC: UN Calls to Investigate Death Threats Targeting…
A series of terrifying death threats — which began back in July, is being aimed at Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Denis Mukwege after he condemned the massacre of 18 people in South Kivu, the…
DRC: CODECO agrees to ceasefire
An armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a unilateral ceasefire. The Co-operative for the Development of Congo, or CODECO, has been condemned by the UN for massacres akin to crimes against…
Breaking: UN Denounces Malian Junta Post-Coup d’état
On Wednesday, The United Nations condemned the National Committee for the Salvation of the People i.e. the soldiers — headed by Goita, who staged a coup d’état in Mali forcing the resignation of now ex-president,…
NEWS: Kenya races to escape new plagues of…
Kenya is in a race to track locusts to stop a new plague from forming in East Africa and ingesting all the greenery they find in their wake. Hundreds of billions of locusts swarmed parts…
The World: Military closely monitoring N. Korea amid…
South Korea is carefully monitoring North Korea's nuclear and missile activities, the protection ministry stated Tuesday, following a media record that Pyongyang appears to have developed miniaturized nuclear devices. Citing a exclusive United Nations report,…
Egypt: ‘President’s remarks contrary to UN treaties
Remarks by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on direct intervention in Libya are contrary to UN treaties and Security Council resolutions, the spokesperson for Libya’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. In a post on Twitter, Mohammed…
Breaking: Ethiopia rejects UN Security Council role in…
Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister, Gedu Andargachew has rejected Egypt’s call to refer the dispute over Addis Ababa’s construction of the giant Nile dam to the United Nations Security Council. The $4.6 billion project, on the Blue…
UN reports highest number of refugees ever recorded
The UN refugee agency says the number of asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and refugees worldwide shot up by nearly nine million people last year – the biggest rise in its records. In its annual “Global…
Sahel armies accused of human rights violations
Soldiers from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger engaged in the fight against jihadists in the central Sahel have been accused of increasingly abusing local populations. The allegations will feature on the agenda of the UN…
Somalia: floods leave dozens dead – UN
Dozens have been killed in flooding in Somalia that has affected nearly 1 million people and displaced over 400 thousand from their homes, according to the United Nations. People struggled to wade through flood water…
United Nations Says Zimbabwe Needs Assistance
The United Nations has said that Zimbabwe is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis so acute that international assistance is needed to subdue it. This comes when the citizenry in Zimbabwe is lamenting over the…
