The United Nations said Monday that it needed $46.4 billion next year to bring life-saving help to around 180 million people in desperate circumstances around the world.

President of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Queens Chapter, Mr Seabelo John, has called on world leaders to commit to conflict resolution through dialogue to achieve sustainable peace.

The United Nations has warned of a potential civil unrest as death toll in Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war nears 10, 000. 

“The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September,” UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said in a statement.

Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how the former President Olusegun Obasanjo missed out the opportunity to become the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza. 

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that attacks by militant group Hamas on Israel did not justify the “collective punishment” of Palestinians, and called for an immediate ceasefire.

The UN Security Council said it will discuss the Israel-Hamas war Monday, as the crisis deepens with Israel gearing up for a ground offensive in Gaza.

UN humanitarians expressed deep concern on Friday for all civilians in the Gaza Strip following Israel’s order for the entire population there to leave the north, amid ongoing airstrikes and a deepening humanitarian crisis.

Nigeria and Mauritius have retained their seats to serve for another four years in the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) from 2023 to 2026. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the candidates from the two countries are re-elected to occupy the two remaining vacant positions […]

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Sunday mourned the death of  Nobel Peace Prize laureate and retired Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, who died at the age of 90. In a statement issued by his spokesman,  Stéphane Dujarric, the secretary-general said that he was saddened by Tutu’s death. He described the archbishop as an unwavering […]

By Kingsley Adegboye with Agency report The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from the European Union (EU), has launched a new observatory to drive action on reducing methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for at least a quarter of the current climate warming. The International Methane Emissions Observatory, IMEO, was launched at […]

UN has appealed for support of 6.6 billion dollars to help 41 million people in danger of sliding into famine as the world currently faces unprecedented catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity. To ramp up support, UN has convened a high-level event, calling for international action in collaboration with the Group of Friends on Action […]

By Owei Lakemfa HUMANITY represented by the 193-member states of the United Nations, UN, are gathered to discuss the challenges of the world and possibly provide solution. But it has so far been characterised by all sorts of drama, disputes, double speak and hope, quickly overtaken by hopelessness. The meeting, running from September 21-27, 2021, […]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says every day, hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry, three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet while two billion are obese and yet 462 million are underweight globally. Guterres said these were just some of the problems and contradictions laid bare on Thursday at the opening of […]