That’s according to Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown, who led a convoy at the weekend carrying aid for around 1,000 civilians to Chasiv Yar, just six kilometres from the frontline in the Donetsk region. The UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Monday that civilians are facing “daily attacks” along frontline areas in the east and…
As humanitarians continued to echo the UN Secretary-General’s urgent calls on Israel to open a safe aid delivery corridor, Gaza will soon run out of basic supplies, according to UN agencies on the ground, who raised alarms about a looming unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Shortly after the outbreak of violence on 7 October, Israel shut all borders with…
The latest, 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck areas northeast of Herat city Sunday morning local time. According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), as of Monday evening local time, two people were reported to have been killed and over 150 injured in the latest quake. In total, about 1,500 people have died,…
The weeklong forum, organized by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), focuses on the challenges faced by developing countries amid today’s overlapping global crises. The Secretary-General urged participants – including national and business leaders, sustainable stock exchanges, sovereign wealth funds and finance experts – to put the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) Stimulus Package…
Briefing the Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily noted the thousands of lives lost by the dam bursts which destroyed whole neighbourhoods after Storm Daniel slammed the region on 10 September. The Special Representative told ambassadors that despite the sense of national unity and compassion shown by ordinary Libyans, the disaster had revealed “severe governance deficits” across…
Siobhán Mullally, UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, said unaccompanied children and children from poor families have reportedly been targeted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in the outskirts of the capital Khartoum and elsewhere. They’ve forcibly recruited women and children especially, she warned. Girls have also reportedly been abducted from Khartoum to…
“History is watching,” Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told UN News in Geneva, highlighting the desperate situation facing around one million Gazans uprooted in the last week, after the Israeli military warned of an imminent offensive following the deadly 7 October attacks on Israel by militant group Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza strip since…
The Punjab government made an important announcement regarding educational institutions The Punjab government has made an important announcement regarding educational institutions. According to the details, caretaker information minister Punjab Aamir Mir said that Munis Elahi should stop spreading lies about the caretaker government of Punjab. He said that no government school was handed over to…
A video of Portuguese star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo reciting ‘Bismallah’ has gone viral. Ronaldo led Portugal in the match against Slovakia in Group J of the Euro 2024 qualifiers, when the match reached the deciding point of the penalty kick, the player was caught on camera reciting the words ‘Bismillah’. Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty kick helped…
Mohammad Rizwan – File photo After Pakistani sports presenter Zainab Abbas, now Indian lawyer Vineet Jindal demanded the International Cricket Council (ICC) to take strict action against Pakistan wicketkeeper and batsman Mohammad Rizwan for offering prayers in the ground. Indian extremism lawyer Vineet Jindal has written in a complaint to ICC chairman Greg Barclay that…
