Ten distinguished persons hailing from all regions of the globe have been appointed to serve on the Secretary-General's inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel, the United Nations announced on Tuesday.
UN chief António Guterres (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) launched on Friday the second phase of the free eye operations project within the "Noor Saudi" program in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
It was implemented during the period from 9 to (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Arabian team made history with winning the gold medal in the Special Olympics Unified Cup-Detroit 2022 by beating Romania 3-1 in the final match held on Saturday.
The Saudi team participated for the first time along with 22 other (...)
The Saudi team for Special Olympics Unified Football has made a historic accomplishment by winning the gold medal in the Special Olympics Unified Cup-Detroit 2022, USA, by beating Romanian team 3-1 in the final match today.
The competing teams in (...)
The UN's sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, has announced the ten winners of its first ever Joint Innovation Challenge; a cutting edge competition to provide funding for social enterprises with innovative solutions that advance the (...)
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis says his club will not sign African players anymore unless they agree not to play in the African Cup of Nations.
The tournament takes place every two years and normally runs for a month from early January, (...)
Countries need to work more together to stop the rapidly spreading outbreak of monkeypox, "no matter the nationality, skin colour or religion of the affected population," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Speaking from Dakar, (...)
Spain has reported a second death in as many days from monkeypox, its health ministry said Saturday.
These are believed to be the first confirmed deaths from monkeypox since its outbreak in the European Union. The ministry gave no details on the (...)
According to the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) 2021 Return and Reintegration Key Highlights published on Thursday, nearly 50,000 migrants were assisted to voluntarily return to their country of origin in 2021.
Global Migration, (...)
The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has held the first activities of the Special Committee tasked with working towards mobilizing resources to assist refugees and displaced persons (IDPs) in the Sahel and Lake (...)
Police in India's national capital Delhi have arrested an American woman for allegedly staging her own kidnapping.
The 27-year-old woman faked her abduction to "blackmail" her parents into sending money after she ran out of cash, police said.
The (...)
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots.
The figures released by the World Health (...)
Over 500,000 conflict-affected people in northeast Nigeria will be tossed "a lifeline," thanks to a new UN humanitarian and development package, launched on Thursday.
The Resilience and Social Cohesion project, launched by the UN Children's Fund (...)
WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United States Princess Reema Bint Bandar emphasized that Saudi Arabia and US have emerged from every challenge stronger together and if the two countries are united, they will be a formidable force for (...)
Pilgrims have appreciated the great efforts and services provided to them by the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to serve the pilgrims of the Holy Grand Mosque, the Prophet's Holy Mosque and holy sites, in addition to facilitating these (...)
The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on Nov. 15, with India projected to surpass China as the most populous country in 2023, the United Nations (UN) said Monday, World Population Day.
"It is a reminder of our shared responsibility (...)
Democratic and responsible governance is needed to counter ongoing insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel, the UN Special Representative for the sub-region told the Security Council on Thursday.
Khatir Mahamat Saleh Annadif was presenting the (...)
Mohammad Barkindo, a Nigerian politician and the secretary general of OPEC, has died on Tuesday at the age of 63.
The head of Nigeria's National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, announced the news in a tweet Wednesday.
"We lost our esteemed Dr (...)
The World Health Organization's Europe chief warned that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched on the continent.
African (...)
Under the beating Tanzanian sun, Lossim Lazzaro nervously looks over his farm.
He slowly pours livestock manure on his crops, in a last-ditch attempt to help them grow.
Lazzaro owns five acres of land and was once a successful tomato farmer in the (...)
The Saudi Export Development Authority, under the theme of "Saudi Made", hosted trade missions from Egypt and Nigeria, from June 27 to 28, 2022, in Riyadh, under the patronage of the Deputy Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Eng. Osama Bin (...)
The Saudi Export Development Authority, under the theme of "Saudi Made", hosts trade missions from Egypt and Nigeria, from 27 to 28 June 2022, in Riyadh, under the patronage of the Deputy Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, Eng. Osama bin (...)
Addressing the first meeting of the World Health Organization's Emergency Committee on Thursday over the global Monkeypox outbreak, the WHO chief told members that person-to-person transmission was ongoing, and "likely underestimated".
Members of (...)
A shocking new UN report released on Tuesday indicates that the number of crisis-impacted school-aged children requiring educational support has grown from an estimated 75 million in 2016, to 222 million today.
The UN global fund for education in (...)
UN humanitarians issued an alert on Tuesday over the deteriorating situation for millions of mainly women and children in northeast Nigeria who continue to be affected by protracted armed conflict, just as the country enters the lean season.
Well (...)
