Rising waters caused by torrential downpours have affected more than 2.4 million in the east African nation, while UN aid teams are increasingly concerned about the spread of waterborne diseases, said aid coordination office, OCHA. Suspected cases of cholera have already been reported and humanitarians have highlighted how much of a threat this poses to…
This year’s UN climate conference, underway in the United Arab Emirates’ largest city, Dubai, opened its second full week hearing a diverse cross-section of women leaders and activists raise their voices to call for ending existing gender gaps and mitigating the worsening impacts of climate change on women and girls. Prevailing gender norms, existing inequalities…
They are taking part in the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial, which opens in the capital, Accra, on Tuesday. The two-day meeting aims to secure vital political support and concrete commitments to strengthen UN Peacekeeping efforts to meet current and future challenges and needs, in line with ongoing reform under the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) framework…
The latest update from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, confirmed rising casualties and devastation amid “heavy Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea”. “From the afternoon of (Saturday) 2 December to the afternoon of (Sunday) 3 December, at least 316 people were killed and at least another 664 injured in Gaza,” OCHA’s situation update…
Among them is young Senegalese singer and rapper Oumy Gueye, who goes by OMG and was triggered to embrace climate action when her grandparents’ home in Bargny east of the Senegalese capital Dakar was destroyed by rising seas. She has been collaborating with UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA to advocate for humanitarian causes in the Sahel…
The Lahore High Court issued an order to impose a fine of 10,000 rupees on domestic consumers and 20,000 rupees on commercial consumers for wasting water. According to Express News, during the hearing of petitions related to smog, Justice Shahid Karim of Lahore High Court said that a fine of Rs. A fine of Rs….
Peshawar: Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Haji Ghulam Ali has said that men and women should be given equal business opportunities. A two-day international conference on women’s empowerment and development was organized with the support of Sarhad Rural Support Program managed by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University. Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Haji Ghulam Ali attended the opening session…
Peshawar: Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Siraj-ul-Haq says that the time has come to get out of the story of father-daughter on one side and father-son on the other. Talking to journalists in Peshawar, Sirajul Haq said that February 8 will be a day of salvation for hereditary politics, 250 million people have been crying for five years…
Photo of the arrested suspects, whose identity the police have not revealed at this time (Photo: Video Screen Grab) Lahore: Another scam of illegal kidney transplants has come to light in Lahore, a kidney extraction gang was caught under the pretense of employment, which removed the kidneys of at least 90 people and sold each…
Lahore: The main suspects of the incident involving Sikh pilgrims in Gulberg area were arrested from Karachi, the accused had fled to Karachi after the incident. According to the details, a few days ago, a few days ago, the accused in a car attacked the Sikh pilgrims at Mini Market Roundabout in Gulbarg area under…
