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Gangs are terrorising communities in Haiti: UN Chief
The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Haitians are trapped in a living nightmare with predatory gangs using…
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UN peacekeepers expected to leave DR Congo in six months
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say the withdrawal of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers from their country is…
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Gender biases not improved over past decade, UN says
Gender inequality has remained stagnant for a decade, according to research by the United Nations released on Monday, as cultural…
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UN rejects request to replace Special Representative to Sudan
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres rejected a request from Sudan’s military leader to replace his Special Representative to…
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UN honours 100 fallen peacekeepers
The United Nations (UN) has honoured over 100 fallen peacekeepers who lost their lives while serving as blue helmets in…
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Mali rejects UN report on alleged execution of 500 villagers by troops
Mali’s interim military government has rejected a United Nations (U.N.) human rights office report on the alleged execution of at…
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UN puts pressure on Sudanese generals to commit to humanitarian aid
The United Nations (UN) is pressing the two generals that lead opposing, warring military factions in Sudan to publicly commit…
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UN warns of Sudan breaking point as air strikes hit capital
As foreign states wind down their evacuations from Sudan, the United Nations (UN) warned of a humanitarian breaking point with…
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New Sudan clashes despite truce, UN warns country at breaking point
Fierce fighting broke out again Monday between the army and paramilitaries despite the formal extension of a truce after the…
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At least 6 people arrested during refugee evictions in Pretoria
At least six people have been arrested during the eviction of refugees and asylum seekers outside the United Nations offices…
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UN warns Sudan’s health system faces total collapse
The United Nations is warning that the health system in Sudan now faces total collapse. This after a 24-hour ceasefire…
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India set to become most populous nation
India is poised to officially become the world’s most populous nation in April with over 1.4 billion people, according to…
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US, UN outraged over Ugandan hardline same-s.e.x bill approval
The United Nations and United States have added to international outrage over a Hardline Bill that the Ugandan Parliament passed…
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Somalia’s drought killed 43 000 last year, half under five: Study
Somalia’s ongoing record drought killed as many as 43 000 people last year, half of them children under 5, researchers…
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Afghan women most repressed in the world – says UN mission
Afghanistan under the Taliban government is the “most repressive country in the world” for women’s rights, with authorities effectively trapping…
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SANDF soldier killed in DRC won’t deter SA involvement in peacekeeping missions
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise says the South African National Defence Force is still heartbroken from the loss…
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Mali expels UN mission’s human rights chief
The Malian interim government on Sunday said the head of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission’s human rights division had…
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UN peacekeepers find mass graves in eastern Congo
The United Nations says mass graves containing 49 bodies have been discovered in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday,…
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Moscow accuses Ukraine of deadly air base attack
Moscow said on Monday it had foiled a new Ukrainian drone attack on a strategic bomber military base hundreds of…
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Pakistan to approach UN after blaming India for bombing
Pakistan will take a dossier to the United Nations alleging its neighbour India has backed incidents of terrorism, the foreign…
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West presses UN chief to inspect drones used by Russia in Ukraine
The United Nations is examining “available information” about accusations that Iran supplied Russia with drones, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said,…
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First UN aid convoy since ceasefire enters Ethiopia’s Tigray
Fifteen trucks carrying food aid entered Ethiopian Tigray region on Wednesday, the United Nations’ food agency said, as humanitarian groups…
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UN mission in DRC has temporarily withdrawn from eastern city of Butembo due to protests
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has pulled out of a large city in the…
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UN experts claim Rwandan troops have been fighting alongside M23 rebels in DRC
A group of United Nations (UN) experts say they have solid evidence that Rwandan troops have been fighting alongside the…
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Protesters ransack UN peacekeepers’ offices in eastern DR Congo
Hundreds of protesters attacked a United Nations peacekeeping force’s warehouse and looted offices on Monday in Goma in the eastern…
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SA Professor Marwala to head UN university
The United Nations has announced South Africa’s Professor Tshilidzi Marwala as the next Rector of the United Nations University headquartered…
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Global population to reach 8 billion by November 2022
The United Nations says the global population will reach 8 billion people on November 15th this year and India is…
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Explosion kills at least two UN peacekeepers in north Mali
At least two United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five severely wounded in northern Mali when a logistics convoy hit…
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United Nations contributes R21 million to KZN relief fund
The United Nations is contributing R21 million to support the government’s relief efforts in flood-stricken KwaZulu-Natal. The province is still…
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ILO: Collective bargaining helps narrow gender gap & advances equality
As the South African labour market grapples with the fate of collective bargaining in the light of recent challenges, the…
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DA’s John Steenhuisen visits Ukraine
The Democratic Alliance’s John Steenhuisen has gone to Lviv, Ukraine on a fact-finding mission. He is going to be there…
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Latest: Foreign nationals in Diepsloot living in fear, seek help to return home amid violence
Given the volatile situation, coupled with the violence targeting foreign nationals around Diepsloot, the Foundation for Human Rights said it…
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Ethiopia pushes to block UN funding for abuse inquiry
A United Nations General Assembly budget committee is due to vote Thursday on an Ethiopian push to block funding for…
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2.5 million people have now fled Ukraine: UN
Some 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago, and another two million have been internally…
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UNHCR: One million refugees fled Ukraine in week
One million refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia’s invasion, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that unless…
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Haiti asks donors to help fund $2 billion earthquake rebuild plan
The United Nations said on its website that Haiti is seeking to obtain $1.6 billion of the $2 billion needed,…
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UN wants $5bn aid for Afghanistan in 2022
The United Nations said Tuesday it needed $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 to avert a humanitarian catastrophe…
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COVID-19: US to end travel ban on southern Africa
The US will lift its travel ban on southern Africa this week. Several countries imposed the bans last month after…
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Ahmed Kathrada Foundation warns corruption eating away at public trust in govt
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation director Neeshan Balton said that state capture had continued and that it was eating away at the…
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Gender-based violence: No to on-set harassment
The days when women would be improperly touched or spoken to in a sexually denigrating way on set may be…
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SA gears up for 16 Days of Activism
South Africa will participate in the 16 Days of Activism of No Violence against Women and Children campaign from 25…
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President Ramaphosa reiterates calls for equitable vaccine distribution
President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again reiterated calls for equitable vaccine distribution. Ramaphosa was speaking at the 76th session of…
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka bags 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award
Former United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has been named this year’s recipient of the…
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United Nations issues urgent appeal to help drought-hit Afghan farmers
The United Nations issued an urgent appeal Saturday for aid for some seven million Afghan farmers in the war-ravaged nation…
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Zim man charged with murder for child bride death
Zimbabwean authorities on Friday charged a man with murder after his 14-year-old wife died at a religious shrine last month…
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Malawi runs out of COVID-19 vaccines as 2nd jabs due
Delays in coronavirus vaccine shipments to Malawi have caused health facilities to run out of doses as hundreds are due…
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List of the happiest Countries in the world
What do Pharrell Williams, Mafikizolo, and DJ Fisherman have in common? Besides all of them being amazingly talented musicians and…
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South Sudan peace deal has not stopped violence: UN
Violence is still raging in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end…
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Cyclone Eloise death toll rises to 21: UN
More than 21 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands affected by a super-storm that made landfall in Mozambique…
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United Nations global response to Human Trafficking
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention, a gathering of the United Nations that defined the world’s…
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