CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Sultan Al-Marshed received today at the fund's headquarters Ethiopian Minister of Finance Ahmed Shide.
The meeting reviewed the efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through projects funded by SFD, to (...)
For the first time in weeks, aid teams have reached refugee camps in Ethiopia's Tigray region, only to find that some Eritrean nationals living there have likely died of preventable diseases, while others are "scared and struggling to get enough to (...)
At least 1.5 million children are not receiving life-saving treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa, warned the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Friday.
The number represents almost half of the estimated 3.6 million (...)
Scientists say the plant enset, an Ethiopian staple, could be a new superfood and a lifesaver in the face of climate change.
The banana-like crop has the potential to feed more than 100 million people in a warming world, according to a new (...)
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 Secretary-General on Wednesday said he was "delighted" to learn that "a demonstrable effort to make peace" in Ethiopia is finally underway, according to information relayed to him by the African Union High Representative for the Horn of (...)
More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday, launching a comprehensive response plan for the region.
A third (...)
Aid and food distribution operations in northern Ethiopia are about "to grind to a halt" amid ongoing fighting, bloodshed and a lack of funding that is making humanitarian access impossible, the UN World Food Program, WFP, said on Friday.
Escalating (...)
The Secretary-General, António Guterres, said on Monday he was deeply saddened by reports that more than 50 civilians were killed and injured in an airstrike in northern Ethiopia, last Friday.
The attack reportedly took place in a site hosting (...)
Recent airstrikes on camps for internally displaced persons and refugees in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, have reportedly killed scores of civilians, including children, and left many more injured.
On Sunday, the UN Office for the Coordination of (...)
The Ethiopian government on Friday freed several high-profile political detainees, a move UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a "significant confidence-building step".
Some leaders from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which (...)
Three-month-old Surafeal Mearig lies helpless at the biggest hospital in Ethiopia's war-torn region of Tigray.
His eyes are wide open, and his ribs press against his thin-wrinkled skin. He is among many children suffering from malnutrition because (...)
The highest number of COVID-19 cases so far in the pandemic were reported last week across the globe, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists on Thursday.
In his first briefing of 2022, WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus repeated (...)
"Refugees are not and should never be a target", UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Thursday, following reports of a deadly airstrike on the Mai Aini refugee camp in Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
While UN refugee agency, UNHCR, (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how critical it is to ensure essential information is accessible to everyone, including people living with disabilities.
On World Braille Day, observed on 4 January, UN agencies have been highlighting how they are (...)
Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah met in Riyadh today Ambassador of the Republic of Ethiopia to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Lencho (...)
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, (...)
Pandemic-related travel restrictions may have put a dent on international migration figures in 2021, but the number of people forced to leave their homes, due to conflict and persecution, rose to record highs.
By November, more than 84 million (...)
Long-running conflicts continued in Syria and Yemen this year, whilst fresh unrest caused serious instability in Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Sudan. United Nations "Blue Helmet" peacekeepers suffered losses and injuries, particularly those (...)
Many Africans escaping violence and poverty come to South Africa in search of a better life. But they often find themselves in danger in their new home, accused of taking jobs away from South Africans, BBC reports.
Photographer Shiraaz Mohamed (...)
In the wake of recent developments in northern Ethiopia, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday urged warring sides to seize the opportunity to bring an end to more than a year of fighting in the Tigray region.
Guterres has welcomed the (...)
Many migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are denied basic human rights, and suffered abuse at the hands of their employers. Since the worsening economic crisis in the country their plight has, if anything, worsened.
"The recruitment agencies and (...)
The US will lift travel restrictions to eight southern African countries on New Year's Eve, the White House announced Friday.
The restrictions, imposed on Nov. 29, affecting South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini (...)
The leader of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region announced a withdrawal of rebel forces from neighboring areas in the country on Sunday, a move that could signal the possibility of a ceasefire after 13 months of war, CNN reported.
In a letter to UN (...)
The political and economic experiments of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Erdogan deserve to be contemplated. The two states share certain similarities and characteristic features - both are overlooking the (...)
