An Iranian aid ship now anchored at Djibouti Port will not go to Yemen, but its contents will be carried to the troubled country by a United Nations (UN) World Food Program ship, an official from Djibouti said Saturday. The source, who asked not to be named, said the Iranian[…]
More than 36,000 newborn Syrian babies in Lebanon are stateless, with no identification documents, the UN refugee agency has told Al Jazeera. The registration data of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicates that, as of the end of March 2015, nearly 51,000 Syrian children were born in Lebanon[…]
The UN’s new Middle East peace envoy on Thursday urged Palestinian factions to unite and Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, on his first visit to the territory. “I strongly believe that it will hurt the cause of the Palestinian people if division, if the lack of[…]
The United Nations launched an appeal for almost $275m to aid 7.5 million people in Yemen over the next three months, as fighting intensifies in the south and air strikes continue in 18 of the country’s 22 provinces. About 150,000 people have been displaced, 50 percent more than the previous[…]
The UN Security Council has heard firsthand accounts from Syrian doctors of alleged chemical weapons attacks in their country. Following the closed-door meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday, Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN, said the Security Council will now seek to identify those behind[…]
Yemen’s Houthi fighters have condemned a UN Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo on the group, saying the decision supported “aggression”. In a news flash on the group’s official television channel on Tuesday, the Houthis’ governing body, the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said it “calls on the masses of the[…]
Boko Haram has killed more than 7,300 civilians in Nigeria and neighboring countries since the beginning of 2014, including 1,000 people this year alone, a UN official said Monday. The Security Council was briefed on the humanitarian situation in the region as negotiations are ongoing about a draft resolution authorizing[…]
Yemen’s embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has asked Gulf countries to intervene militarily against Shiite rebels who have seized the capital and are advancing toward his new base in the south, his foreign minister told Saudi media Monday. Riad Yassin said Hadi has also asked the United Nations to[…]
A group of 21 international aid agencies criticised the UN Security Council for failing to implement its resolutions aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Syria, calling 2014 “the worst year” of the crisis, a report said Thursday. The report found that despite three resolutions adopted by the council in[…]
The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today will be an 81-year-old grandmother before she has the same chance as a man to be CEO of a company – and she will have to wait until she’s 50-years-old to have an[…]
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