The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attacks against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) this morning. A Mission convoy hit an improvised explosive device in Aguelhok, Kidal region. One peacekee…
Day: October 7, 2019
UNHCR: Global Forced Displacement Crisis Must be Addressed and Resolved
GENEVA – The U.N. high commissioner for refugees is calling for urgent action to resolve the global forced displacement crisis as increasing numbers of people flee conflict, natural disasters and grinding poverty. Filippo Grandi was speaking at the ope…
UNHCR: Global Forced Displacement Crisis Must be Addressed
GENEVA – The U.N. high commissioner for refugees is calling for urgent action to resolve the global forced displacement crisis as increasing numbers of people flee conflict, natural disasters and grinding poverty.In recent years, nearly 71 million peop…
Cameroon Military’s Reconciliation Efforts Welcomed, Shunned by Anglophones
BOASSA, CAMEROON – Cameroon’s military has begun efforts to implement President Paul Biya’s peace resolutions from last week’s national dialogue on the country’s anglophone separatist crisis, but skepticism lingers as the military is dogged with accusa…
Free, Fair, Peaceful Election for Mozambique? No Way, Analysts Say
JOHANNESBURG – An escalating insurgency, attacks on political campaigners and a terrified population have set a worrying scene for Mozambique’s election on October 15.While the poll looks, on the surface, like a simple two-way contest between the long-…
Speakers Approve Work Programme, Focus on United Nations First Annual Budget, as Fifth Committee Begins Session
Delegates at the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened their seventy fourth session with the election of Andreas D. Mavroyiannis of Cyprus as their chairman as they urged each other to collaborate to handle a heavy workload that include…