Politics

UN Humanitarian Chief Concludes Visit to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey

Photo: webshot

Sep. 04, 2021

Elections represent an opportunity for stability and unity in Libya

UNOCHA/Giles Clarke      Vegetables are sold amidst the rubble of the old town of Benghazi in Libya.

 

10 September 2021   Peace and Security

Yemen: As conflict drags on, ‘no quick wins’ – UN envoy

UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

An elderly woman drags water back to her tent in a displacement camp in Abs, near the Saudi border in northern Yemen.

10 September 2021  Peace and Security

Global community can still shape ‘new reality’ in Afghanistan

UN Photo/Manuel Elías

A screen in an interpreter's booth shows Malala Yousafzai addressing the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, on 

 

9 September 2021   Peace and Security

General Assembly President calls for halt to nuclear tests

ICAN/Tim Wright     Demonstrators call for a ban on nuclear weapons.

September 8, 2021   Peace and Security

Yemen: ‘Climate of fear’ grows, all sides to blame, say rights experts

UNOCHA/Charlotte Cans       

The Faj Attan neighbourhood in Yemen is regularly hit by airstrikes. Most of the population has left.

 

September 8, 2021  Human Rights

Hurricane Ida Kills at Least 45 in the Northeast of America

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September 2, 2021

Andrew Campbell 

 

Mystery Illness Plagues Kids in India

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September 1,2021

Andrew Campbell 

 

Afghanistan: UN humanitarian chief calls for ‘rights…well-being’ of women

OCHA      Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Relief Coordinator, discusses humanitarian issues with the leadership of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan.

5 September 2021  Humanitarian Aid

African Union Makes Vaccine Deal for the Continent

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September 03, 2021

The African Union has announced that Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines assembled in South Africa will no longer be exported to Europe and will instead be distributed among African countries.