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 Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
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 treating rape victims in the conflict in eastern DR Congo. The UN is also ensuring security at the Panzi clinic, […]
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 device that is greater resilient, fairer, and much less unsafe to the planet. Food structures involve all the degrees that […]
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 Security Council contributors acquired through The Associated Press on Friday, the U.N. chief said the 4 nations rank “among the […]
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 conflict-ridden province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The United Nations is vehemently raising the […]
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 humanity. The group, made up of Lendu people, has historically clashed with Hema people, in a conflict that has killed […]
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, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Stephane Dujarric — the spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, General Antonio Guterres, released this official statement, […]
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 of East Africa and Asia in February, wreaking havoc for livestock farmers. It is feared the tiny invaders ought to […]
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, Reuters mentioned that several international locations agree with that the North has “probably developed miniaturized nuclear units to match into […]
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 Al-Qablawi said that according to the UN Charter, the use of force is prohibited among member countries. He stressed that […]
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 Nile in Ethiopia, would create the most powerful hydroelectric dam in Africa. But Egypt sees the project as a potentially […]
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 Trends” report released on Thursday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that the 79.5 million […]
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 Security Council on Friday. “Peace and Security in Africa”: the theme of the meeting organized by the Security Council is […]
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 in the central Somalian city of Beledweyne after the Shabelle river burst its banks on Sunday and 1,200 people have […]
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 adverse effects of the coronavirus-induced lockdown which is shuttering the economy. VOA News spoke to Trevor River, a 28-year-old male […]