The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) preparatory to the 48th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, due to take place in Islamabad, the capital city of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in March 2022, (...)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Texas man was arrested Friday for "allegedly sending threatening election-related communications to government officials" in January 2021.
The DOJ said in a statement that Chad Stark, 54, was arrested (...)
Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, has ended a four-day visit to Nigeria, pledging support and promising the United Nations will do everything it can to help rebuild the lives of vulnerable families who have been impacted by violence and (...)
Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly three per cent in 2020, another fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN-backed report launched on Thursday that looks at the socio-impact of the crisis has revealed.
The proportion of people living on (...)
UN Human Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet, launched on Wednesday a $400.5 million funding appeal for 2022, urging States and private donors to support her "agenda of rights".
Presenting the Office's (OHCHR) Annual Appeal, the High Commissioner said (...)
The UN on Monday said it began implementing more than a dozen development projects funded by a Beirut-based fund in aid to Lebanese and Syrian refugees, in addition to the Palestinians, mainly revolving around child support.
Some six (...)
About $150 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the largest allocation ever, was released on Thursday to boost underfunded humanitarian operations across 13 countries.
For the Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency (...)
North Korea says it has conducted another hypersonic missile test, under the watch of its leader Kim Jong-un, BBC reported.
State news agency KCNA said the missile fired on Tuesday had "precisely hit" a target some 1,000km (621 miles) away.
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The Secretary-General, António Guterres, strongly condemned on Monday the "appalling" attacks perpetrated over the weekend in Nigeria's Zamfara State in which scores of civilians were killed.
According to news agencies, an estimated 200 people were (...)
After a recent wave of attempts and coups d'état in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Guinea, the UN Special Representative for the region told the Security Council on Monday this resurgence, particularly in West Africa, "is often the (...)
Co-chaired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (represented by the Ministry of Finance) and France, the Chad Creditors Committee has held a virtual meeting on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, to discuss the restructure of Chad's debt, under the new joint (...)
Armed conflict, inter-communal violence and insecurity continued to take a devastating toll on thousands of children throughout 2021, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), warned on Friday.
From Afghanistan to Yemen, and Syria to northern Ethiopia, (...)
The World Health Organization has urged people to cancel some of their holiday plans to protect public health as the Omicron variant spreads globally, BBC reported.
"An event canceled is better than a life canceled," said WHO head Dr Tedros Adhanom (...)
In Sudan, reports of serious sexual violence and the use of live ammunition against protesters at the weekend must be investigated immediately, the UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
The allegations surfaced after demonstrations in Khartoum (...)
Intercommunal clashes that erupted in Cameroon's Far North region over the past two weeks have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes, although the actual number may be much higher, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said on Friday.
In the last (...)
Addressing the International Conference on "Peace and Trust Policy-Basis of International Security, Stability and Development," which started Sunday in Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan, the OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha reaffirmed the (...)
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, follows with deep concern the humanitarian situation in Chad marked by the arrival of thousands of Cameroonian and Sudanese refugees on the territory of Chad, (...)
Asylum-seekers and other migrants continue to be forcefully expelled from Libya, raising concerns at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Spokesperson Rupert Colville, (...)
Environmental degradation enables armed groups to extend their influence and manipulate resources to their advantage, the UN chief told the Security Council on Thursday, highlighting that conflict-prevention initiatives need to factor in climate (...)
A flare-up in intercommunal fighting in northern Cameroon has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and brought a halt to aid operations there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
The development is just the latest episode (...)
Fast and flexible, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) was set up to promote swift, coordinated action in humanitarian crises, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told a High-level Pledging Event on Wednesday, adding: "It has more than (...)
Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not be ignored by the international community, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
The alert comes as new data from the region (...)
With escalating violence displacing thousands of people since November, the humanitarian situation in Sudan's Darfur is getting worse and around 6.2 million people will need humanitarian assistance next year, UN agencies reported on Tuesday.
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Ambassador Hissein Ibrahim Taha has taken over as the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The Chadian diplomat assumed office at the headquarters of the OIC's General Secretariat in Jeddah on Wednesday.
Ambassador (...)
The elected Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ambassador Hissein Ibrahim Taha today assumed office at the headquarters of the OIC's General Secretariat in Jeddah.
Ambassador Hissein Taha was elected in November 2020 (...)
