RIYADH — Young Saudi optometrist Nouf Al-Balawi is just excited over getting an opportunity to offer altruist voluntary services for the poor people in Nigeria.
She had spent 60 hours in the volunteer medical program to combat blindness in Nigeria, (...)
Nigerian Afrobeats star Tiwa Savage has revealed she is being blackmailed over a sex tape but says she won't pay, BBC reports.
She said the video was accidentally posted on Snapchat by her lover who deleted it after he realised his error but it had (...)
Africa's film and audiovisual industries could create over 20 million jobs and contribute $20 billion to the continent's combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, said on Tuesday in a new report highlighting this (...)
In what it called a "historic" move, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday it has recommended widespread use of the world's first and only malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions where there are moderate (...)
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 (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulations to President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China on the anniversary of his country's National Day.
The King wished the president constant good health and (...)
Apart from disastrous economic consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic has also amplified the climate and security crisis in the Sahel, said Niger's Minister of Foreign Affairs during the country's turn to speak at the UN General Assembly.
Hassoumi (...)
The President of Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, asked for United Nations member states to "materialize all the promises made to Africa in compensation for the sacrifices agreed to protect humanity against global (...)
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 (...)
VIENNA — The coastlines of Africa stretch across 30 000 km and are host to heavy industry, sprawling peri-urban settlements, in addition to tourism and shipping activities, all of which contribute to the growing challenge of marine plastic pollution (...)
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 (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and Nigeria have thwarted an attempt to smuggle 451,807 amphetamine tablets into the Kingdom by sea from a network linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Thursday.
The network was trying to smuggle (...)
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria received Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan at the Presidential Palace here on Tuesday.
During the audience, Prince Faisal conveyed the greetings of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman (...)
A new center in Berlin, Germany, launched on Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to help countries better assess and respond to global disease threats in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic (...)
RIYADH — The first foreign pilgrims to perform Umrah this year will arrive in the Kingdom on Friday, said Hani Ali Al-Amiri member of the National Committee for Hajj and Umrah.
The pilgrims from Nigeria will be the first to arrive at 9.00 p.m. in (...)
Dubai Airports is projecting robust growth for Dubai International (DXB) in the second half of the year after the airport clocked 10.6 million passengers in the first six months of 2021 despite travel restrictions affecting its key source markets (...)
More than 700 healthcare workers and patients have died, and more than 2,000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities since December 2017, according to a three-year analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) released on Tuesday.
The (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
During the period of 7-14 July 2021, KSrelief's medical team examined 694 (...)
Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 — some 161 million more than for 2019 — the UN Secretary-General said on Monday; "new, tragic data", which indicates the world is "tremendously off track" to achieve the (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued implementing the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which started on July 7 and will continue until July (...)
A cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 325 people in 15 states and the capital Lagos between January and June of this year, according to health authorities.
In an update on Saturday, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said a total of (...)
LONDON — The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan's fight against new variants of COVID-19.
Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) program, Pakistan will be able to draw on UK (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued implementing the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
From June 30 to July 4, KSrelief's medical team examined (...)
At least 26 students and a teacher have been rescued after armed men raided a private secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna State early Monday and kidnapped scores of people, said police.
Officials from the school in Kaduna's Chikun (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded implementing the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
During the period of 22-29 June 2021, KSrelief's medical (...)
