The same refrain ran through the ranks of French-speaking Africa this week during the high-level debate in New York: the UN, 80 years after its creation, must reinvent itself if it wants to regain cre ...

Botswana’s economic activity is expected to contract by about 1 percent in 2025, owing primarily to a further decline in diamond production, before starting to recover in 2026, according to a new repo ...

World Bank Regional Vice President for Western and Central Africa Ousmane Diagana will undertake a three-country visit to the region from 27 September to 3 October ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday voiced deep concern over the rapidly worsening human rights situation in South Sudan, citing that nearly 2,000 civilians have been killed th ...

Global food insecurity has gradually declined since 2021 but remains well above 2015 levels, a United Nations agency has said, noting that more than a quarter of the world\'s population, or nearly 2 ...

World leaders have thrown their weight behind the first-ever United Nations global political declaration tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health together ...

The ongoing war between rival militaries in Sudan has left vast areas devastated and people returning to their homes without adequate shelter and only limited access to water and food ...

The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, said on Thursday that the North African country is placing its hope on the United Nations to play an effective and integrated role in ...

The escalating Israeli military offensive in Gaza City continues to overwhelm medical professionals there, with four more ...

Countries have increasingly adopted fiscal rules and frameworks that aim to give clarity and predictability to government spending ...

The Ministry of Health of Libya\'s Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) has participated in the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Dis ...

With nearly half the global population under 30, the UN continues to emphasise the indispensable role young people play in decision-making towards achieving a just, equitable and sustainable future fo ...