New York, Jun 12 (JEN): The Central Africa region is still facing many challenges, including an economic crisis aggravated by the drop in oil prices, rising youth unemployment, and terrorist ...

New York, Jun 11 (JEN): Addressing over a hundred delegates attending a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome, Pope Francis on Thursday urged Member State ...

New York, Jun 11 (JEN): Religious leaders have a pivotal role to play in times of turmoil, during which they can provide a values-based glue to hold communities together and provide common g ...

New York, Jun 11 (JEN): Amid “very encouraging signs” in the United Nations-facilitated Libyan political dialogue, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on the No ...

New York, Jun 11 (JEN): The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space opened its annual session in Vienna today with the role of sustainability and climate change in outer space activiti ...

New York, Jun 10 (JEN): For Côte d’Ivoire, the October presidential election represents an important milestone in the consolidation of the hard-won gains of recent years, the Unite ...

New York, Jun 10 (JEN): Millions of people are in need of a greater assistance across Iraq, said Stephen O’Brien, the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, following a ...

New York, Jun 10 (JEN): Smallholder farmers in Uganda have made impressive progress in grain harvest and storage, thanks to a World Food Programme (WFP) investment plan which aims at improvi ...

New York, Jun 10 (JEN): In his address to the World Cities Summit in New York on Tuesday, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson called on global leaders to adapt to the demogr ...