UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the news of the successful transfer of oil aboard the FSO Safer to a replacement vessel, thus “avoiding what could have been a monumental environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.” The FSO Safer was built as a supertanker in 1976 and converted a decade later into what is in effect a floating…
Ted Chaiban of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, and Edem Wosornu with the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on their recent mission to the country and Chad, one of several neighbouring nations hosting some 900,000 people who fled the violence. Fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently…
Latest data from IOM’s displacement matrix indicates that the clash between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries has uprooted a staggering number of people, with more than 926,000 seeking refuge abroad and a total of 3.02 million internally displaced. According to IOM’s latest humanitarian situation update, individuals have been forced to leave all of Sudan’s 18…
The US has announced more military aid to Ukraine. This aid is the 43rd security assistance package for Ukraine. According to Pentagon, Ukraine will be given additional security assistance of 400 million dollars. The new aid will include defense equipment, combat vehicles and weapons. Against Russian aggression, the United States has provided more than 43…
The UN agency insisted that implementing a combined strategy of identifying household contacts and providing TB preventive treatment is cost-effective. Unitaid said it could cut deaths by 35 per cent among household contacts of patients and people living with HIV in the next 12 years. Saving children’s lives The joint study by Unitaid, John Hopkins…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yul has announced 150 million dollars in aid to Ukraine in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He said that last year aid of 100 million dollars was given, which will be increased to 150 million dollars this year. South Korea will provide Ukraine with the necessary equipment and…
File photo Meta, the company that owns social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new app ‘Threads’ to compete with Twitter. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and the owner of Meta Company, said ‘Welcome’ while posting the first post on the new app ‘Threads’. According to Mark Zuckerberg, 5 million people created…
An Indian-origin citizen was sentenced to 7 years and 4 months in prison after 1 million pounds worth of cocaine was found in the UK. Scatchendale was stopped by police near the Birmingham Highway in May this year. Prohibited drugs worth more than 1 million pounds were recovered from the accused’s vehicle. The 36-year-old driver…
FAO will co-lead the Clean and Healthy Oceans initiative together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), in a strategic partnership with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UN educational, science and cultural agency UNESCO. “Together, we can turn the…
Courtesy: Daily Sabah, AP Photo. According to the Saudi Statistical Institute, the number of Hajj pilgrims this year was more than 1.8 million. The Saudi Statistical Institute from Riyadh further said that the number of pilgrims has been much less than the estimates. This year, 18 lakh 45 thousand 45 male and female pilgrims participated…
