Providing an update of the situation, he said the World Food Programme (WFP) distributed close to 10,000 hot meals on Monday and Tuesday to about 5,000 people displaced in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The UN agency started to transition from hot meals distributions to cash-based transfers for the displaced. “So far, more than 37,000 people…
The camps were in the neighbourhoods of Lac Vert and Mugunga, near Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, which has seen a sharp uptick in violence over the past few months. UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that the situation around Goma continues to remain very tense,…
Karachi: According to the recent Gallup survey, Pakistan Army has been declared as the highest institution in the ranking of institutions in Pakistan, while in the list of popular political leaders at the public level, Chairman PTI Imran Khan is on the top and his political rival Nawaz Sharif has come on the fifth place….
Nawaz Sharif, the party will enter the election field only with an aggressive narrative of strict accountability London: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif has said that the party will enter the election arena with an aggressive narrative of strict accountability. The inside story of the big meeting of the League leadership in London has…
—Photo: Reuters Srinagar: The Indian government released Kashmiri leader and Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq after more than four years of house arrest. According to international media, the 50-year-old was detained along with other political leaders and thousands of residents after the government revoked the constitutional autonomy of Occupied Kashmir. Most of the detainees were…
Addressing the Assembly’s annual general debate, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, said, “the world cannot afford Cold War 2.0,” because there are a raft of challenges facing humankind that can only be addressed through global cooperation. Multiple shocks Indeed, a series of external “shocks” – COVID-19, climate change and conflict – have devastated developing economies, reversed decades of…
Sheikh Hasina said that achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries has been greatly impeded by lingering impacts of the pandemic, the effects of an existential climate crisis, and the wide ramifications of the war in Ukraine affecting global food, financial, and energy securities have greatly impeded the. Looking ahead to next year’s…
Peace remains elusive despite compromises by the Yemeni government and welcome support from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman, as well as the UN, to end years of strife in the country, President Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi told the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly. “We hope that the Houthi militias will recognize a…
“This escalation of the migrant crisis is one of the appalling consequences of the plundering of natural resources of countries made poor by slavery, colonization and Western imperialism, terrorism and internal armed conflicts,” said Faustin-Archange Touadéra during his speech to the annual debate of the UN General Assembly. Continuing his rebuke by referencing the recent…
He stated, therefore, that the order of the day is not less but more cooperation among countries. “Today – especially today – we need the courage, creative energy and will to fill in the rifts. Rifts which are deeper than ever.” A multipolar world Chancellor Scholz stated that the modern world no longer revolves around…
