Coronavirus: UN asks 9 countries to delay peacekeeper rotations
The United Nations on Friday asked nine countries, including China, South Korea and France, to delay by three months the rotations of their UN peacekeeping forces due to the coronavirus outbreak. The request was made to the countries “to maintain operational strength and execute their mandated tasks,” diplomatic sources at the UN said. The nine […]
UN Chief, Deputy mourn victims of Sudanese plane crash
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and his Deputy, Ms Amina Mohammed, have expressed sadness over Thursday’s plane crash in Sudan that reportedly killed no fewer than all 18 people. Reports say four children and three judges were among the dead in the accident involving a Sudanese military plane. “The Secretary-General is saddened at the tragic […]
United Nations to draft int’l convention to fight cybercrime
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution to draft a new international convention to fight cybercrime. The resolution, adopted by a vote of 79-60 with 33 abstentions, decides to establish an open-ended ad hoc intergovernmental committee of experts to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and […]
More than 60 dead in latest Syria clashes ― War monitor
Clashes between Syria’s regime forces and armed groups in the country’s last major opposition bastion have killed more than 60 on both sides in the past 24 hours despite UN calls for de-escalation, a war monitoring group said Friday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 38 jihadists and allied rebels had been killed […]
France, UN host international meeting on aid for Lebanon
The UN-created International Support Group (ISG) for Lebanon meets in Paris Wednesday, stressing the need for a stable government that listens to public opinion expressed in an ongoing popular uprising, organisers said. France and the UN were to co-host the meeting, which the French foreign ministry said “should allow the international community to call for […]
Speech: The open society endangered ― Wole Soyinka
(Being a talk delivered at the UN World Anti-Corruption Day, Abuja, Dec. 9. 2019) Present here, I fully expect, is the youth contingent of this undertaking. We are still within the United Nations designated Year of the Child, and that makes youth involvement doubly appropriate as an integral part of our encounter. This is […]
Brazil could lose its UN vote due to $400m debt ― Officials
The Federal Republic of Brazil risks losing its vote at the United Nations (U.N.) unless it pays some of the $400 million it owes before the end of the year. The largest country in both South America and Latin America according to VOA News report accrued a debt of $415.8 million of which $143 million […]
People on survival brink increased by 22 million ― UN Report
One in every 45 people in the world – a record 168 million – will need humanitarian assistance in 2020, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday. The number of people on the brink of survival has grown by 22 million over the past year due to violent and protracted conflicts, climate change-related […]
We’re living in hottest decade on record, says UN
Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General to The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said that the current decade is on track to be the hottest on record. Taalas who made the remark on Tuesday at the UN climate summit in Madrid, said, “We are nowhere near on track to meet the Paris Agreement target. “If we do not […]
Hate Speech Bill: UN condemns death penalty
ABUJA-THE United Nations has condemned the prescription of death sentence in the Hate Speech Bill which is before the National Assembly.
Vision 2030: Community leader seeks synergy with traditional rulers
Chief Festus Awoniyi, a community leader in Omu-Aran, Kwara, on Monday called for specific roles for traditional rulers in the country in order to achieve the Vision 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Awoniyi, a retired administrator and the Petu Atayero of Omu-Aran, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of […]
