Infectious Diseases Fester in Wake of Drought, War - UN Report
Reporter
A UN agency signals a worrying uptick in the spread of infectious diseases as "successive shocks" expose thousands of people across the country to measles, cholera, and malaria. Read more »
AU Assembles Second Reflection Forum in Accra
GhanaToday
The African Union (AU) is set to convene its Second Reflection Forum on Unconstitutional Changes of Government (UCGs) in Accra from March 18 to 19, 2024. Read more »
UN Chief Condemns Attack On Peacekeepers in DR Congo
UN News
The UN chief on Saturday condemned an attack which saw eight peacekeepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, wounded during clashes between the… Read more »
WHO Urges Investments for the Scale Up of Tuberculosis Screening and Preventive Treatment [press release]
WHO
Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is marked on 24 March, WHO has released an investment case for TB screening and preventive treatment. A modelling study developed with… Read more »
Unga - U.S and Moroccan Ambassadors Present First-Ever UN Resolution On Artificial Intelligence
MAP
The U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield and her Moroccan counterpart Ambassador Omar Hilale, presented Thursday to the international press, the first-ever… Read more »
Communique of the 1204th Meeting of the PSC Held On 13 March 2024 [press release]
African Union
Adopted by the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) at its 1204th meeting held on 13 March 2024 on the briefing by the Panel of the Wise on its activities in… Read more »
24 Million Sudanese Children Facing 'Generational Catastrophe'
UN News
As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an… Read more »
Voices From Civil Society - 'Investment Must Be Made to Promote Equality and End Inequality'
Spotlight Initiative
The 68th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), the UN's largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment, is taking place this month under the… Read more »
Egypt-EU Summit
Egypt Online
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the activities of the Egyptian-European Summit on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at the Federal Palace, in the presence of the European Union… Read more »
Tuberculosis - MSF Launches Unprecedented Project to Tackle Underdiagnosis Among Children [press release]
MSF
Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of TB every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are never diagnosed. Taking the opportunity… Read more »
Mauritania Bolsters Economic and Climate Resilience With $48 Million World Bank Support Package
World Bank
The World Bank Board of Directors approved a $48 million Development Policy Financing (DPF) operation for Mauritania on February 29, 2024. This operation consists of a $24 million… Read more »
DR Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia Join Global Push to Stop Most Preventable Cancer
allAfrica
Every two minutes, a woman dies from cervical cancer, despite the existence of effective tools, like vaccinating against the major cause of HPV to prevent the majority of… Read more »
UN Report On Sudan 'Does Not Correspond With Scale of Violations'
Dabanga
Critics lament that the most recent report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on the human rights situation in Sudan is 'modest', and that it… Read more »
Southern Madagascar, Where Girls Are Sold Into Marriage Before They Are Born [column]
UN News
Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes even before they are born. Read more »
'Record High' in UN Development Index Masks Stark Disparities
UN News
Despite record high global human development scores in 2023, disparities between the haves and the have-nots are widening, a new UN report revealed on Wednesday. Read more »