Parents are pulling their children from schools after separatists fighting for the independence of the English-speaking regions of Cameroon reportedly attacked a school. A video is ... Read more »

The UN Development Programme's latest Human Development Index shows that although Sub-Saharan African nations still dominate the list of the world's least developed countries, the ... Read more »

Twenty-five-year-old midwife Saifura Khorsa, working with the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross in a remote area of northeast Nigeria, was murdered ... Read more »

As the world prepares for a high-level meeting on NCDs at the UN General Assembly in New York taking place at the end of September 2018, the government has called for urgent action ... Read more »

Former President of Botswana Festus Gontebanye Mogae presented recommendations from the UN High Level Commission's report, which include a series of proven, cost-effective 'best ... Read more »

US National Security Adviser John Bolton has threatened to sanction and prosecute International Criminal Court judges if the tribunal attempts to charge U.S. service members and ... Read more »

Six Ghanaian soldiers carried the casket draped with the UN flag off the plane in Accra. The UN flag was then replaced with the red, yellow and green flag of Annan's homeland in a ... Read more »

Rural jobs, both on-farm and off-farm, have the potential to attract ... young people in the coming decades - not in traditional "subsistence levels" roles but in lucrative ways ... Read more »

With famine looming in four countries - South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen - the United Nations-backed Committee on World Food Security has stressed the need to rally support ... Read more »

The UN mission in Libya says a ceasefire was signed with militia groups in Tripoli to end all hostilities, protect civilians and safeguard public and private property. At least 50 ... Read more »