LONDON – Every day, more than 1,000 South Sudanese refugees are fleeing the fighting in their home country, crossing into Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, where emergency...
ADDIS ABABA – The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, welcomes the signing, today, in Addis Ababa, by the Government...
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Ms. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, will conduct an official visit to the...
BRUSSELS – EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs is going to announce close to €3 billion in grants for countries and organisations in the region of...
GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed her alarm at a “draconian” new law in Nigeria that criminalizes same-sex...
EL FASHER – The Joint Special Representative (JSR) of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, will hold a press conference at...
GENEVA – IOM today hopes to begin an airlift to evacuate some 550 Malian migrants stranded by fighting in the Central Africa Republic (CAR), following a...
WASHINGTON -The United States is deeply concerned by Nigeria’s enactment of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. Beyond even prohibiting same sex marriage, this law dangerously...
GENEVA – United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović, will visit South Sudan from 14 to 17 January 2014 to undertake an assessment of...
ADDIS ABABA – The African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA) continues its efforts towards the effective implementation of its mandate as set...
