Eight children killed in Cameroon school attack ― UN
At least eight children were killed Saturday and a dozen wounded in an attack on a school in Kumba, southwestern Cameroon, the United Nations said. An initial report by a local official had given a death toll of four students. The eight children were shot or hacked to death with machetes, a statement issued by […]
Desertification: Nigeria may partner UN on management of sand, dust storms —Minister
Says 35% of country’s total land area threatened by desertification By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The federal government disclosed on Thursday that it was considering entering into a partnership with the United Nations on the management of sand and dust storms. The government said it was also into collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation, […]
UN releases voting procedure for June 17 elections
The United Nations has issued a new voting procedure for the election of its next General Assembly president slated for June 17 in New York.
Three Nigerians, 80 others get UN posthumous peacekeeping award
The United Nations on Friday honoured three Nigerians and 80 other military, police and civilian peacekeepers, who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2019. The fallen heroes were posthumously awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal during a virtual award ceremony to mark the 2020 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. Two of them, […]
Don’t let patent rows hamper search for coronavirus vaccine, UN advises
The UN patent agency has hailed the push to create a coronavirus vaccine and make it globally available, but warned against allowing copyright rows to overshadow and delay the process. “What we need in the first place here is innovation,” Francis Gurry, the head of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), told reporters in […]
Rwanda genocide suspect Bizimana found dead ―UN tribunal
A former defence minister in Rwanda, Augustin Bizimana, one of the top suspects wanted over the country’s 1994 genocide, has died, the UN tribunal said Friday. He is believed to have died around August 2000, “based on the conclusive identification of Bizimana’s remains in a grave site in Pointe Noire, the Republic of the Congo,” […]
