Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Thursday, starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US elections ...

Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making and commit to massively scaling up needs-based climate financing and a full, ...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called for “urgent international support” as the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide reaches 123 million, with ongoing conflicts in ...

Nearly one in three students worldwide says they have been physically attacked at least once during the year, the UN educational and cultural organisation, UNESCO, said on Wednesday ...

Humanitarians are sounding the alarm over the continued violence and deteriorating security conditions in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN reported on ...

The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for nine countries across the African region that are hit hard by the current mpox surge ...

Former President Donald Trump has clinched victory against Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the presidency, reports the Associated Press, which called the race for Trump Wednesday morning, ...

Sudanese Sovereign Council President, Lieutenant General Abdul Fatah Burhan has congratulated president elect Donald Trump who won the US presidential race, against Kamala Harrison ...

Young people gathered in Cairo for the World Urban Forum led calls on Tuesday for action to ease the housing crisis impacting billions globally, and to boost local action – especially youth-led urban ...

More than two billion people currently living in cities could be exposed to an additional temperature increase of at least 0 ...

In addition to driving a regional refugee crisis, the brutal war in Sudan is exacerbating instability in the contested region of Abyei, a senior UN peacekeeping official said on Tuesday, highlighting ...