East Africa locusts threaten food insecurity across subregion, alerts UN agriculture agency

20 January 2020
Climate Change
FAO/Giampiero Diana

Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are dealing with desert locust swarms of “unprecedented size and destructive potential” that could spill over into more countries in East Africa, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday.

Nearly half a billion people can’t find decent work; unemployment set to rise: new UN labour report

Major humanitarian hub in north-east Nigeria burned in attack

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Smokers who quit one month before surgery reap benefits: UN health agency

World leaders must address ‘shameful’ disparities in education spending: UN children’s agency

Federal Government/Guido Bergmann

‘This terrible situation cannot be allowed to continue’, UN chief tells world leaders at major Libya summit

Peace and Security

Speaking at a major, high-level summit on Libya, held in the German capital Berlin on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres evoked the disastrous humanitarian situation faced by thousands of civilians, as conflict in the North African country grows deeper and more destructive.

UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

Former UN chief Perez de Cuéllar celebrates his 100th birthday

UN Affairs

The fifth Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuéllar, whose UN career began with the first ever General Assembly meeting in 1946, celebrates his 100th birthday on Sunday.

CDC/Alissa Eckert, James Archer

Urgent need for ‘immediate’ solutions to combat drug-resistant infections, warns WHO  

Health

Drug-resistant infections are on the rise as private investment in new antibiotic development declines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

UN Photo/Marco Dormino

Haiti earthquake victims honoured at UN, with pledge to safeguard the nation’s future

Peace and Security

More than 200,000 Haitians who perished in the devastating earthquake which struck the island nation ten years ago, were honoured in a solemn ceremony of remembrance at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, along with 102 staffers who died – the single greatest loss of life in the Organization’s history. 

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Libya: ‘Dire and untenable’ situation for tens of thousands of children in unrelenting conflict

Peace and Security

The world should not accept the “dire and untenable” situation facing children in wartorn Libya the head of the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday.

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