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UN agency urges heightened vigilance after H5N1 outbreaks in West and Central Africa

Photo: For the first time since 2006, the H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in Cameroon, putting

UN agency urges implementation of accord to tackle illegal fishing

Photo:Offloading tuna in Côte d’Ivoire at Abidjan’s main port.

'Alarming' levels of malnutrition and famine-like conditions in northeast Nigeria – UN

Photo: IDP women in one of the camps in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, collect their share of s

Stand up for and invest in teenage girls, UN says on World Population Day

Photo: Students laugh as they leave school in Bangladesh.

Multiple Advocacy Groups File Lawsuit Against Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Washington, D.C., July 8, 2016

Whale sharks, winghead sharks and Bornean orangutans slide towards extinction

08 Jul 2016

Farmers in Africa urgently need information and access to funding to fight climate change, say civil societies in EU and Africa. Measures to further facilitate legal migration also proposed

July 8, 2016

Concussion Rates Have Doubled Among U.S. Kids

July 10, 2016

'Monster' El Niño subsides but impact on children set to worsen as disease, malnutrition spread – UNICEF

Photo: A child is weighed at a UNICEF-supported therapeutic feeding centre at the Balaka district

Zimbabwe: Teachers take industrial action to force government to pay salaries

08 July 2016