The United Nations has raised an alarm over the reduction of US contribution to the world body saying it could ‘undermine the impact of longer-term reform...
The United Nations has revealed that the world is facing its largest humanitarian crises since the UN was established in 1945 with more than 20 million...
Months after declaring its intention to quit the International Criminal Court (ICC), the South African government has withdrawn its intention to leave the Hague-based war crimes...
In a bid to fight the debilitating pangs of hunger, hundreds of thousands of wizened South Sudanese families have resorted to eating weeds and water lilies...
Newly sworn-in President of the Gambia Adama Barrow has declared that his country will not quit the International Court of Justice (ICC) in a move which...
The United Nations through its secretary-general, António Guterres has disturbingly revealed that over 201 million people will be jobless in 2017. The new UN chief, also...
Following the arrest of Premium Times publisher and a Correspondent with the online newspaper by the Nigerian Police, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the...
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has branded Kaduna State Council of Imams and Ulamas as part of the evil network whose sole aim is to decimate...
Days after it was slammed with stiffer sanctions by the United Nations Security Council, the government of North Korea has warned of “tougher counter measures for...
Authorities in South Sudan have denied clams by the UN that a process of ethnic cleansing is underway amid civil war in the country. While strongly...
The United Nations in response to North Korea‘s fifth and largest nuclear test yet, has slammed the Asian nation with tougher sanctions. The UN Security council...
The government of Burundi led by Pierre Nkurunziza has refused to cooperate with a U.N. inquiry into months of political violence, claiming that accusations of abuses...
The emergence of Donald Trump as President-elect of the United States of America has seen nations which were hitherto unfriendly with America seeking to normalize relationship...
The United Nations has declared in a statement that Kenya’s deportation of South Sudan’s rebel spokesman James Gatdet Dak (a registered refugee) back to his home...
Hard stance President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has informed that he will stop using vulgar words claiming God has told him to stop swearing. Duterte...
Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moo, identified as Stephane Dujarric has confirmed the UN’s receipt of South Africa’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court,...
Still reeling from the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Mathew which has claimed the lives of over a 1,000 people and wiping out some towns and...
The United Nations through its human rights chief has revealed that the number of protesters that have been killed during anti-Kabila protests which broke out this...
Dr Zebulun Takwa, adviser to the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on Peace and development, has called on Nigerians to take personal responsibility to ensure a peaceful...
Tougher sanctions are underway for North Korea after Pyongyang’s fifth and largest nuclear test took place on the 9th of September in defiance of U.N. sanctions...
The United Nations has disclosed that at least two million people are still trapped in areas in Borno State controlled by Boko Haram UNICEF’s Chief of...
The United Nations has revealed that over 1 million refugees have fled war-torn South Sudan for safety in neighboring countries with women, children and survivors of...
President Muhammadu Buhari will from September 19-23, 2016 be in New York, United States to participate in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly...
Two days after North Korea waved aside the push for sanctions by the US government against it after it carried out a successful “nuclear warhead explosion”,...
Hard stance President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte has described the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a fool for bringing up the issue of...
The United Nations, UN, has painted a gloomy picture of Nigeria in a recently released report, saying the country is one of the poorest and most...
The South Sudanese government led by President Salva Kiir has accepted the deployment of 4,000 more UN peacekeeping troops after first rejecting the regional protection force...
The decision by the United Nations to deploy 4,000 strong troops to Juba, has been disapproved by authorities in South Sudan. Moments after the UN Security...
The President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza has rejected the deployment of up to 228 United Nations police officers to monitor and possibly quell fresh violence which...
The United Nations has ordered the deployment of 228 UN police personnel to Burundi as human rights and security situation worsens in the East African country....
The United Nations has announced that it has temporarily stopped delivery of aid materials in Borno State. The suspension comes after Thursday’s attack on a humanitarian...
This year’s edition of the annual Abuja Housing Show (AHS) has come and gone with the housing sector stakeholders leaving in its trail a robust and...
War prone South Sudan is now suffering the consequences of the stand-off between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and armed men loyal to first vice...
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has taken the forgery case involving Senate President, Bukola Saraki; himself and others outside the shores of the country. He called...
A senior U.S State Department official has informed that defiant North Korea has started the production of plutonium fuel in its continued plan to pursue it’s...
Following three straight days of shipwrecks at the Mediterranean Sea which saw the death of 45 bodies recovered from the sea and the rescuing of 2,000...
According to government officials in Ethiopia, over 100 people have been killed and at least 20,000 have been rendered homeless after floods and landslides swept through parts...
According to South Korean office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile to the northeast of Asia at about 6:30...
The foreign affairs minister of Burundi has informed Reuters that his government has accepted the United Nations Security Councils resolution to send police to his country...
North Korea fired a short-range missile over the sea off its east coast on Tuesday as a response to U.N. sanctions imposed upon it, South Korea’s...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon says he regrets a ‘misunderstanding’ over using the word ‘occupation’ to describe Morocco’s annexation of W.Sahara saying he regrets using...
Not fazed by strengthened UN sanctions hastened by U.S and China, the government of Kim Jong-un of North Korea has threatened to embark on more nuclear...
North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket into orbit Sunday which Pyongyang say is part of a purely scientific space programme has been strongly condemned by...
After rising from an emergency meeting on Wednesday, the UN Security Council has vowed to start work on new sanctions against Pyongyang after its hydrogen bomb...
Plans to bring peace to war torn Syria may well see the light of day soon following the adoption of a draft resolution calling for peace...
The unrest in troubled Burundi which began in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term in office and which also saw...
North Korean leader, Kim Jon Un, has certainly unsettled neighbouring countries around the Korean peninsula by claiming that it now has Hydrogen bombs in its arsenal. The announcement...
Ladislas Ntaganzwa, 53, one of the last suspects wanted for taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo....
A resolution strongly condemning the escalating violence in Burundi has been unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council. The resolution paves the way for the...
The key actors in the South Sudan war, President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have in the past committed to stopping the fighting, only...
