The 2023 funding appeal is the largest for the Caribbean country since the devastating 2010 earthquake and more than double the amount requested last year. The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) said the number of Haitians who require aid to survive doubled over the past five years to 5.2 million, and the aim is to…
The funding will support some 3.1 million people, as the West African country continues to face the worst humanitarian crisis in its history. Armed group activity, and military operations, have led to widespread displacement, with nearly two million citizens uprooted. Human rights abuses and violations, and political instability – including two coup d’états last year…
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…
Photo: File Multan Sultans assistant coach Abdul Rahman has said that our team’s formula is that we plan according to our strengths and others’ weaknesses. While talking to the media in Multan, assistant coach Multan Sultans said that being in domestic cricket I knew which player was doing what, we have also planned for Karachi…
The security plan represents “an essential tool” paving the way for the coming local elections, UN mission spokesperson Vladimir Monteiro said. Voters will be casting ballots in local elections for the first time since 1988. The Government of CAR and the UN stabilization mission (MINUSCA) signed a new plan on Tuesday amid recent flaring tensions….
