The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a landmark resolution to strengthen how UN mandates - the decisions taken by Member States that guide the Organisation’s work - are created, impl ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that this week’s Sixth Investment Conference has secured US$52 billion for 31 projects which is expected to create 230,000 permanent jobs ...

DR Congo on Tuesday night beat Jamaica 1-0 in their final 2026 World Cup play-off match at the Guadalajara Stadium in Mexico to qualify for the tournament being hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada ...

More than three million Tanzanians are expected to benefit from two new World Bank–supported programs in the high-need sectors of education and social protection ...

The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, on Tuesday urged Israel to repeal a law passed by its parliament on 30 March, reinstating the death penalty under terms applying almost exclusively to Palestini ...

The UN’s top humanitarian official warned the Security Council on Tuesday that Lebanon is facing one of its most dangerous moments in years, with escalating violence, mass displacement and deepening h ...

Geneva, Switzerland 9PANA) - Developing countries are being priced out of the affordable finance they desperately need for sustainable development, with sovereign credit ratings often overstating risk ...

More than a month since war erupted in the Middle East, UN agencies confirmed on Tuesday that huge numbers of people have returned to Syria from Lebanon \ ...

The killing of three UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon in the past two days has highlighted the grave dangers for the 10,000 military personnel who make up the bulk of UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in L ...

Sudan on Tuesday said it is extending for three months the opening of the sole border that facilitates delivery of badly needed humanitarian relief from Chad into Darfur in Sudan ...

General’s Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, Guang Cong, is in Sudan where he has met Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Mohi Eddin Salim ...

Some 20,000 seafarers remain stranded on ships in the Strait of Hormuz as the war in the Middle East continues, a situation which has been described as unprecedented in the post-Second World War era ...