UN and Africa: focus on Gabon, CAR and Ocean Conference
Gabon to create vast network of protected marine areas in Africa
Gabon to create vast network of protected marine areas in Africa
Upsurge in violence forces 80,000 people in CAR to flee: UNHCR
Malnutrition alert for 400,000 DRC Kasai children
Somali drought "tragedy continues to unfold"
“Tragic milestone”: 1 in 5 South Sudanese children now a refugee, UNICEF
Somalia children facing “triple threat” of drought, disease and displacement: UNICEF
The “triple threat” of drought, disease and displacement is taking a terrible toll on children in Somalia, according to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF. It’s projecting that the number of malnourished children there has risen by 50 per cent since the beginning of the year, to 1.4 million. Dianne Penn has been speaking to Susannah Price, chief of communications for UNICEF Somalia, who is based in Nairobi.
Ceasefire urgently needed in South Sudan, says UN special envoy
New mass graves find in DRC – OHCHR’s Liz Throssell
Migrant slave market horrors revealed in Libya
UN peacekeeping chief urges support for Mali peace process
Parties to the conflict in Mali must be encouraged to accelerate implementation of a 2015 peace agreement, the new UN peacekeeping chief Jean Pierre Lacroix told the Security Council on Thursday. The deal signed by the Government and armed groups sought to end three years of instability, including a failed military coup and the seizure of the north by radical Islamists. Dianne Penn reports.