Security fears hamper South Sudan famine aid effort
The fighting must stop in South Sudan if at least 100,000 people are to be saved from famine, UN aid agencies said on Monday.
The fighting must stop in South Sudan if at least 100,000 people are to be saved from famine, UN aid agencies said on Monday.
Methamphetamine, or “crystal meth”, isn’t as widely used as heroin in Afghanistan, where much of the world’s opium crop is grown, but it has the “potential” to become more severe.
The practice of enforced disappearance is not decreasing, it’s “morphing”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said.
The so-called “fall armyworm” pest is a “new threat” to agriculture and the economy of Southern Africa which has already spread to seven countries since the beginning of the year.
The number of whales hit by cargo ships annually is “in the hundreds”, according to one expert in the field, taking part in a panel discussion at UN Headquarters on Thursday.
Dr Howard Rosenbaum is the director of the Ocean Giants Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
East Africa drought pushing food prices up sharply
International Day for women in science was “best present”: Iraqi princess
“The two-state solution remains the only way to achieve the legitimate national aspirations” of Israelis and Palestinians, the UN Special Coordinator of the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Thursday.
Assurances have been given to humanitarians by the Syrian government that obstacles to aid deliveries will be removed across the war-torn country, the UN said on Thursday.
If the international community can manage fishing more sustainably, then future food is “more likely to be found in oceans than on land."