The number of IDPs is likely to increase this year, Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (Photo: File) Geneva: In 2022, a total of 70 million people were internally displaced in various countries due to wars, floods, armed conflicts and other reasons. According to a joint report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) and the Norwegian…
Turkish presidential candidate Muharram Ince has decided to stay out of the election race. According to the US Broadcasting Corporation, his number of potential voters was low and some opposition leaders feared that he would further fracture the anti-Erdogan vote. While giving a press conference in Ankara, he said that I am leaving this field,…
US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan met with the Director of China’s Foreign Affairs Commission, Wang Yi, in Vienna. The White House has issued a statement that the meeting took place between May 10 and 11. According to the White House, the two sides had clear, concrete and positive discussions on US-China joint relations, global…
Firefighters stand outside the building after the explosion. A number of police officers and firefighters were injured in an explosion in a residential building in the German city of Ratingen. Police and firefighters were called to assist a homeless man. According to the police spokesperson, as soon as the policemen reached the building, there was…
A court in the United Arab Emirates has given justice to a private company that hired an assistant Arab engineer as a farmer. According to Arab media, the Ras Al Khaimah Civil Court in the UAE has ordered the private company to pay the assistant engineer 25.7 thousand dirhams, repatriation ticket and case fees as…
Unless donors meet the gap, 60 per cent of the people the agency assists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories will no longer be receiving food assistance in June, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced, adding that by August, the agency will be forced to completely suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza. “Desperate times…
To date, four warrants have been issued and two others are in the application process, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said, highlighting this key step as recognizing the rights of victims to justice. “If this Council’s referrals are to be vindicated, it requires everyone to step up,” he said. “Partnerships are key to justice.” The Council…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking to journalists in Geneva, a day after the emergency committee which made the emergency recommendation last July, advised the Director-General to declare it over. ‘Significant challenges’ remain “However, as with COVID-19, that does not mean that the work is over. Mpox continues to pose significant public health challenges that need…
That was the message conveyed by the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, Martin Griffiths, to a meeting held on Thursday in Istanbul, to discuss the future of the Initiative, with senior official from the signatories to the deal, Russia, and Ukraine, together with the UN and Türkiye, which also mediated the agreement. Vital for global food…
The development comes after more than three weeks of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) loyal to General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. UN rights chief Volker Türk opened the meeting condemning the “wanton violence” which has brought more hunger, deprivation and displacement upon the Sudanese people, while…
