GENEVA — The 2023 World Economic Situation and Prospects report has just been issued, and U.N. economists present a gloomy and uncertain outlook for the coming year, with the global economy projected to grow at a particularly sluggish rate.Multiple cri…
GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, warns the departure of European forces from Mali has created a dangerous vacuum in the country.The European forces completed their withdrawal from Mali in November, ending a 14-year effort to keep the country sa…
The U.N.’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, appealed Friday for $452 million to fund the critical work of the high commissioner’s office in protecting and defending human rights throughout the world this year.The high commissioner’s office is th…
Huambo – The winner of the national phase of the 2022 edition of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) secondary school essay competition, Casimira Pimenta, will benefit from a scholarship awarded by the Huambo provincial government.The ann…
A court in Comoros, the island nation off Mozambique, has found former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi guilty of treason for selling passports to people from the Middle East.A state security court in Comoros gave a life sentence to former President Ahme…
Sahrawi refugees have lived in camps in Algeria’s remote desert region of Tindouf for decades. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and spiralling food and transport costs stretching humanitarian funding, it has become harder for them to put…