World Happiness Day: International Raelian Movement calls on UN over rising suicide rates
With World Happiness Day approaching on March 20, the International Raelian Movement (IRM) urges the United Nations to take decisive ...
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Even if they offer us a cup of tea, we do not need it! Uganda says they don’t need UN’s aid to fight rebels in DRC
Foreign Affairs Minister Henry Okello Oryem (PHOTO/File). KAMPALA - Uganda has in a harsh response said that it doesn't need ...
FAO highlights urgent need to recover degraded land in Africa
First forest and landscape inventory points to slow progress in restoring degraded lands on the continent; intensifying efforts for climate ...
UN Report: Covid-19 pandemic year marked by spike in world hunger
The UN says upto 811 million people were undernourished in 2020. (PHOTOS/Courtesy) 12 July 2021, Rome - There was a ...
FAO warns renewed desert locust infestation in Ethiopia, Somalia
FAO predicted hatching and band formation in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia with fledging and swarm formation from late June ...
EU contribution of €8 million to strengthen gains in Desert Locust fight
Fatuma Abdi Dalmar has been a farmer all her life in Ethiopia. Her crops were devastated by Desert Locusts (PHOTO/Courtesy). ...
UN chief asks world’s leading mayors to take urgent climate action
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General (PHOTO/File). UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on the world's leading mayors ...
Fight against desert locusts in East Africa in peril amid funding shortfall
Swarm of locusts in western Kenya in 2020 (PHOTO/File). NAIROBI -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ...
FAO, stakeholders, kick-off development of a five-year strategic plan for Uganda
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Permanent Secretary, Mr Pius Wakabi Kasajja during the launch of the process ...
UN demands release of Libyan journalist
Loey FelipeGhassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefs ...
