While the security situation in the city of Goma remains worrying and a "precarious calm" is noted in Bukavu, capitals of North and South Kivu currently under the control of the M23 armed group, Unite ...

Independent UN experts on Monday expressed grave concern over the scale of conflict-related sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 94 per cent of victims being women and g ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the risk of nuclear conflict is rising – as global security arrangements unravel and military spending soars – urging governments to pus ...

A Kenyan police officer serving with the Security Council-backed Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti died on Sunday after sustaining injuries during an anti-gang operation in the low ...

Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern on Monday following the announcement by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and affiliated groups, of a political charter proposing t ...

The humanitarian crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is worsening as M23 rebel attacks continue to drive tens of thousands from their homes and claim hundreds of lives, UN humanit ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially announced the theme of World Health Day 2025, Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, which will focus on improving maternal and newborn health and surv ...

Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 per cent globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected to rise by 68 per cent, according to a new report from the International Age ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Monday reaffirmed its US $500 million pledge to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in a signing event during the fourth Riyadh International Humani ...

Today, 24 February 2025, marks the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the civilian population continues to face near daily-attacks ...

The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, Monday morning received in Tripoli the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, who is on an official vis ...

The Sudanese army said on Sunday that it had broken a nearly two-year siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan state, linking its forces adva ...