The US has offered a $5m (£4.1m) reward for details leading to the arrest of the "masterminds" who orchestrated the assassination of an Ecuadorean presidential candidate.
Fernando Villavicencio, who campaigned against corruption, was shot dead at a (...)
As UN General Assembly's general debate continued Saturday, Horn of Africa nations made a strong plea for action to rescue a world teetering on the precipice of climate catastrophe and struggling under the weight of an outdated and unfair global (...)
In a world grappling with increasingly complex crises ranging from poverty and inequality to the climate emergency, the United Nations remains at the forefront of the global response, determined to set humanity on a path to peace and prosperity, (...)
Children in Africa are among the most at risk from climate change impacts but are being woefully deprived of the financing necessary to help them adapt, survive and respond to the crisis, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on (...)
A Somali sports official was suspended for nepotism on Wednesday after a viral video showed an apparent novice runner skipping across the finish line in last place at an international competition.
The video, which circulated widely on Wednesday, (...)
Alexander Lobov, a military engineer and mine action expert with the UN Development Program (UNDP), has worked in hotspots from Afghanistan to Somalia, but never imagined using this experience in his native country, Ukraine, now one of the world's (...)
MINA — On behalf of King Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman held his annual reception on Thursday for heads of state, Islamic dignitaries, guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, government bodies, and heads of (...)
With an estimated 3.5 billion people living in "climate hot spots", related peace and security risks are only set to heighten, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the Security Council on Tuesday, warning that (...)
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia has expressed its sincere condolences to Somalia following the munitions explosion south of Mogadishu, which caused the death and injury of a number of civilians.
In a statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it (...)
With "crisis atop of crisis" threatening millions in the Horn of Africa, the international community cannot afford to stand idly by, Secretary-General António Guterres said at a pledging event to raise $7 billion for the region, held at UN (...)
Children in the Horn of Africa are living through an unprecedented large-scale crisis of hunger, displacement, water scarcity, and insecurity, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday.
More than seven million children under the age of five (...)
Civilians who are caught up in the crossfire in Ukraine need and deserve humanitarian relief, "wherever the are", said the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief on Monday, briefing the Security Council, calling for aid workers to be allowed full access, in (...)
JEDDAH — King Abdullah Air Base in the Western Sector received 26 foreign flights evacuating 2,889 nationals from Sudan. The nationals belonged to six countries — India, Pakistan, Sudan, Indonesia, Morocco, and Korea.
Twenty-two flights departed (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, commended Saudi Arabia's success in evacuating its citizens and nationals of other countries stranded in Sudan, and transporting them to (...)
Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of the militant group Daesh (Islamic State, or IS) in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.
Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi is said to have taken over the group after his predecessor (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), hosted the 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines today at the authority's headquarters in Riyadh.
This meeting comes in implementation of (...)
RIYADH — A total of 133 people, Saudi citizens and other nationalities, arrived in Jeddah on Sunday after being evacuated from Sudan through air and sea. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.
The Ministry said that 45 Saudi citizens, in (...)
In continuation of the evacuation efforts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the directives of the Kingdom's Leadership, several evacuees arrived at King Abdullah Air Base in Jeddah this morning through a Royal Saudi Air Forces plane, from (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the arrival of a new batch of 200 evacuees of various nationals in Jeddah from Sudan on Thursday evening.
With the arrival of the latest batch, the total number of evacuees landed in (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed on Tuesday 1,100 food baskets to people affected by drought in the Federal Republic of Somalia, benefiting a total of 6,600 individuals.
This aid is part of the third phase of (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 850 food baskets to individuals affected by drought in the Federal Republic of Somalia on Monday, assisting 5,400 people.
This aid is part of the third phase of the Life-Saving (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed on Sunday 600 food baskets to people affected by drought in the Federal Republic of Somalia, providing assistance to 3,600 individuals from 600 families.
This aid is part of the (...)
Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre, performed today Umrah rituals.
Upon his arrival at the Grand Mosque, he was received by a number of officials of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the (...)
Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance, in cooperation with the Kingdom's Embassy in Somalia, has launched the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Program for Iftar in the Federal Republic of Somalia during (...)
The UN's Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Adam Abdelmoula made a passionate appeal for sustained support for the country's most vulnerable on Wednesday, where climate shocks and protracted conflict have created one of the worst (...)
