Pierre Vauthier is the chief of office for the FAO in Ukraine. He told UN News how the FAO team in the country – around 100 staff members, mostly Ukrainian specialists in agriculture-related areas – was dispersed throughout the country, in often difficult working conditions. “One of the difficulties we faced, once the war began,…
Guidom Sabally’s high school education was cut short because his family could no longer afford school fees. For many years, he struggled to find work as an unskilled labourer. Now in his 40s, Mr. Sabally was able to take up the opportunity of free technical training, provided by a UN-led training programme, in 2018; having…
Johannes Fromholt is currently near the frontline in Donetsk Oblast and has been describing the support the UN is providing. “I am currently in Kurakhove, which is close to the frontline. We see heavy fighting, which has intensified even in the past week. We came here as part of a UN interagency humanitarian convoy, to…
The devastating impact of 12 years of civil war has been compounded by the 6 February earthquake which has left tens of thousands of people dead and millions more in need of support on both sides of the border between Syria and Türkiye. WHO’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Dr. Ahmed Al Mandhari,…
File photo Ex-Finance Minister Miftah Ismail again attacked Dar, saying that they would have removed me and brought in an economist-type person, there are capable people like Ahsan Iqbal in the Muslim League. Miftah Ismail said in his statement that Dar Sahib’s thinking is upside down, he has to close down people’s factories because of…
“Like hundreds of thousands of other people in South-Eastern Türkiye I was fast asleep when the world started to shake. I don’t really know how to describe to anyone who hasn’t felt an earthquake, let alone one of the biggest ever recorded in this region. It’s just completely surreal. The floor and the walls were…
Karachi: (PNP Update) A car overturned near Clifton area of the provincial capital, as a result of which one person was killed and 4 people were injured. According to the rescue officials, the car overturned accident happened near Bilal Chowrangi while four people including a woman were injured as a result of the accident. The…
Karachi: (Dunya News) One person riding a motorcycle was killed while three others were seriously injured due to the collision of a dumper in front of Korangi No. 4 Girls College in the provincial capital. According to Karachi Police, the person who died during the accident has been identified as Zubair, while the injured have…
