WASHINGTON - In honor of Gender Day” at the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-19), the United States is...
JUBA - The AU- UN Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, urged tribal leaders in South Darfur to embrace the principle of resolving...
WARSAW - Africa faces huge financial challenges in adapting to climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) that spells out...
ABUJA - The ECOWAS Commission will present Mali with about half a million US dollars in food aid within the next few weeks to support populations...
ABUJA - ECOWAS is to deploy twenty (20) members of its Emergency Response Team (EERT) to Mali within the framework of a regional Humanitarian Assistance for...
GENEVA - Azerbaijan, Nicaragua and Nigeria are among the countries the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) plans to visit in 2014, the rights...
ADDIS ABABA - The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is shocked and saddened by the acts of violence...
NEW YORK – Facebook Inc. is testing technology that would greatly expand the scope of data that it collects about its users, the head of the...
NEW YORK – Facebook sought to entice media outlets to post more news stories at the leading social network Monday, helping pinpoint promising pieces — a...
LAGOS – Nine bodies have been recovered so far from the charter plane which crashed shortly after takeoff in Lagos on Thursday, and six survivors confirmed....
