An Ethiopian farmer has been talking about how avocados have transformed the lives of not just his family but also of people living in his community.
Bogale Borena set up an avocado nursery in Yirgalem in the south of Ethiopia, and has been so (...)
The Arab Parliament President Adel Bin Abdulrahman Al-Asoumi has praised Saudi Arabia's efforts, under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and the Crown Prince, to address the Yemeni crisis and put an end to the (...)
Minister of Finance Mohammed Al-Jadaan and Governor of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) Dr. Fahad Al-Mubarak have participated in the 4th and last G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' (FMCBG) Meeting under the Italian Presidency.
The (...)
Although COVID-19 deaths continue to decline, vaccine inequity persists, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, again calling for greater support for developing countries.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday urged authorities in Ethiopia to allow vital humanitarian work there to continue, following the recent decision to declare seven of the organization's staff persona non grata and expel them from the (...)
Ethiopia's government has used the country's flagship commercial airline to shuttle weapons to and from neighboring Eritrea during the civil war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, a CNN investigation has found.
Cargo documents and manifests seen by CNN, (...)
The first round of food distributions to people in Afar and Amhara regions impacted by the spread of the conflict in northern Ethiopia has been completed, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday.
However, distributions of supplies into Tigray (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday that academic faculty members and teachers of universities, colleges, schools, and vocational and technical institutes from countries facing travel ban will be allowed direct entry into the (...)
The world currently faces unprecedented catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity, according to UN agencies, and around $6.6 billion is needed urgently, to support 41 million in danger of sliding into famine.
To ramp up support, the United (...)
RIYADH — The General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) announced on Sunday the start of receiving applications from citizens, who want to travel to countries facing travel ban, to meet some specific humanitarian cases.
The Jawazat cited (...)
The decision to expel United Nations staff from Ethiopia could affect aid distribution in the war-torn north of the country, where needs and displacement are rising, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
Engagement between the UN and the Government (...)
Ethiopia is expelling seven senior United Nations officials for allegedly "meddling in the internal affairs of the country," CNN reported on Thursday quoting the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The group, which includes officials from the (...)
The White House strongly condemned Thursday the government of Ethiopia's expulsion of UN officials, saying "we will not hesitate to use... any other tool at our disposal to respond quickly and decisively to those who obstruct humanitarian assistance (...)
Urgent support is needed for tens of thousands of missing migrant families who are often forced to rely on smugglers and other informal networks, to trace loved ones, the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) said on Wednesday.
Despite (...)
Ethiopia says it is expelling seven senior United Nations officials for "meddling" in its internal affairs, BBC reported.
The tweet from the foreign affairs ministry said the officials had 72 hours to leave the country.
The UN has raised concerns in (...)
Sudan continues the path to democracy, two years after the revolution that "carried the aspirations of our people for freedom, peace and justice", Prime Minister Abdalla Adam Hamdok told the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
The revolution began in (...)
Top UN officials met in the margins of the 76th General Assembly on Thursday, with a strong call to action to stamp out gender-based violence (GBV), amid a rise in forced displacement and other humanitarian emergencies around the globe.
GBV includes (...)
With humanity on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction, the world must wake up, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
Outlining six "Great Divides" that must be (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, where they discussed the latest developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) built on the Nile (...)
The UN Security Council has encouraged Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to resume AU-led negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to reach a mutually acceptable agreement on filling and operating the dam.
In a presidential statement, the (...)
UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet on Monday deplored "multiple and severe reports of alleged gross violations of human rights, humanitarian and refugee law" committed by all parties to the conflict in Tigray.
In an update to the UN Human (...)
RIYADH — The validity of iqamas (residency permits), exit and re-entry visas, as well as visit visas of expatriates who are currently stranded in the countries facing travel ban, will be extended until Nov. 30, 2021, free of cost, the Saudi Press (...)
Mental health and psychosocial support must be seen as integral to all humanitarian, peacebuilding and development programs across the UN, the secretary-general said on Wednesday.
António Guterres was speaking at a high-level event on Mental Health (...)
A deadly outbreak of meningitis has been declared in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the World Health Organization (WHO) have been supporting health authorities to deploy an initial emergency response (...)
19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping nearly 5,000 Ethiopian migrants stranded in the country to return home, the UN agency reported on Tuesday.
Some 300 migrants are set to depart for Addis Ababa this week on (...)
