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…
Information on the projects and the positive impact they are having on the lives of victims, and children born as a result of sexual exploitation, are contained within the fund’s fifth annual report released earlier this week, covering 2022. Contributions to the Trust Fund can be made by governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, private institutions,…
Screen grab Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the economic indicators are improving with the support of friendly countries. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the Youth Sports Initiative in Islamabad. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Shahbaz Sharif said that yesterday the Chinese bank rolled over 600 million dollars to Pakistan, the country’s foreign exchange…
Lahore: Reacting to the Prime Minister’s address, the spokesperson of Tehreek-e-Insaf has said that Shahbaz Sharif’s address was a collection of lies through which an attempt was made to discredit the nation, after Tehreek-e-Insaf’s support and protection of the IMF deal with Pakistan. I could do it. Reacting to the Prime Minister’s address to the…
Pakistan and IMF welcome progress on staff-level agreement, US State Department: Photo: File Washington: America says that it will continue its unwavering support for Pakistan’s economic success. In a media briefing, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller praised the staff level agreement between Pakistan and the IMF and emphasized on maintaining economic relations with Pakistan…
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 voiced concern over gender-based violence in countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and noted lack of hope over the crisis in…
People around the world should be able to play a more significant role in decision and policy-making processes that impact them and their communities in order to uphold democracy; that’s according to participants in a discussion at the UN focusing on strengthening democratic governance. In recent years, the UN has increasingly been looking at ways to…
Vietnam military parade Chinese Defense Minister Li Shengfu says that China is ready for high-level military communication and cooperation with Vietnam. In a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart in Beijing, Li Sheng said that the international situation is getting worse and worse, with the Asia-Pacific region facing security challenges. He said that China and Vietnam…
Beijing: China has expressed its support for Moscow in the wake of an armed coup by the Wagner Group, a private mercenary army in Russia. China’s foreign ministry said in a brief statement that the incident was an “internal matter for Russia” after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, moved his troops within…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi supported his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the failed coup in Russia. According to the Russian news agency from Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. According to the news agency, on this occasion, the Iranian president expressed his full support for the…
