‘Crushing’ debt crisis spells development disaster for billions: UN chief
According to a new report by the UN Global Crisis Response Group, entitled A World of Debt, a total of 52 countries – almost 40 per cent of the developing…
Sudan crisis: You don’t dare ask refugees where the men have gone, say UN aid teams
From the World Food Programme (WFP), Chad Country Director Pierre Honnorat, said that 20,000 people crossed into Chad just last week. Speaking to journalists via Zoom from Zabout refugee camp…
UN relief chief calls for continued support for Syria and other crisis regions
The “relief chief” was speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York just as these two separate lifesaving initiatives are set to expire in the coming days. He also…
Women and girls bear brunt of global water and sanitation crisis
The study provides the first in-depth analysis of gender inequalities in drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in households, revealing that women and girls bear the brunt of the global…
WFP funding crisis leaves millions stranded without aid in West Africa
The agency’s emergency food and nutrition assistance operation in the Sahel began in June, focussing on refugees, newly displaced people, malnourished children under five, pregnant women and breastfeeding women and…
Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres
António Guterres was addressing the Council of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the world’s largest regional security body in terms of landmass and population which currently includes China, India, Kazakhstan,…
UN rights chief: ‘Don’t leave the climate crisis for our children to fix’
“We must not leave this for our children to fix – no matter how inspiring their activism,” he told the Human Rights Council, advocating for a “just transition” to a…
Forecasts of crisis and bankruptcy of Afghan economy proved wrong, Maulvi Haibatullah
Maulvi Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, says that the Islamic Emirate wants good political and economic relations with the world and especially with Islamic countries. will On the…
A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis
Afghanistan, one of the world’s largest producers of heroin and methamphetamine – most of it smuggled abroad – is home to an estimated 3.5 million drugs users, according to the…
Turkey raised interest rates to a record to deal with the economic crisis
Ankara: After the re-election of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his government has adopted new economic policies, the first step of which is to appoint Mehmet Simsek as the Minister of…