The head of the UN refugee agency on Monday urged countries to drop measures to block refugees and migrants at their borders, saying they are ineffective and sometimes unlawful. Addressing more than 100 diplomats and ministers in Geneva at UNHCR’s annual meeting, Filippo Grandi said an unprecedented 123 million people are displaced around the world….
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to loudly condemn those “abhorrent acts” which have triggered a shocking wave of violence across the Middle East. Guterres said this in his message to mark one year since the Hamas-led terror attack during which more than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals were brutally killed…
Rivers worldwide had less water in 2023 than at any time in the last 30 years, according to report by the UN weather agency on Monday. The report, published by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), said that global water levels have been well below the long-term average in the last five years. The fall in…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed for the violence to end now with war ramping up across the Middle East. Guterres, in a statement on Tuesday, condemned the broadening of the Middle East conflict, with escalation after escalation. “This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire.” Iran fired waves of ballistic missiles at Israel on…
The health and living conditions in the Gaza Strip are “inhumane,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said. According to UNRWA on social media platform X, sanitary and living conditions across Gaza are inhumane. “Mountains of garbage are piling up in Gaza’s middle areas as sewage…
The United Nations Development Programme, Global Environment Facility, Small Grants Programme (UNDP GEF SGP) has assured Nigeria of continued support for environmental sustainability projects to ensure a healthy environment. Mrs Ibironke Olubamise, National Coordinator, UNDP GEF SGP, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The…
The conflict in Syria which has been going on since 2011, is threatening to escalate again, a United Nations commission has warned. Syria is experiencing “new waves of hostilities”, said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN’s Syria Commission of Inquiry. He was speaking on Tuesday as he presented his latest report to the UN Human…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, has called on Japan to join Africa in advocating for reform of the UN Security Council to ensure fair and equitable representation for the continent. Tuggar disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by Alkasim Abdulkadir, Special Assistant on Media and Communications Strategy to the…
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, has condemned the deadly Russian missile and drone strikes that began overnight and reportedly targeted 15 regions of the country. Schmale, in a statement on Monday, said that, like millions of people in Ukraine, he spent hours in a shelter that morning due to the ongoing wave…
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Mohammed Fall, has called for universities’ stakeholders to collaborate with governments to accelerate efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Fall made this call at the second national conference of the Lagos State University’s Centre for the Actualisation of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals…
