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Eleven people, including United Nations employees, sustained injuries after a UN aircraft made a hard landing at an airport in Mali’s eastern city of Gao, the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma) said. The plane left the capital, Bamako, Monday morning, and had four UN personnel and seven crew members. It …

The United Nations has said it is “utterly shocked and horrified” by the killing of five aid workers by unknown armed groups in northeastern Nigeria. The statement late on Wednesday by Edward Kallon, UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, followed the release of a video showing the murder of the humanitarian …

The UN eminent peace Ambassador Bishop Samuel Owusu has urged Ghanaians to stop violence and conflicts for peaceful election on December 7, 2020. He said this during church service around. “The politicians who are trying to bring or share blood for this nation God will wipe their entire generation”  He …

The United Nations says it is “shocked and deeply disturbed” by footage of an apparent sex act in one of its official cars in Israel. The clip shows a woman in a red dress straddling a man in the back seat of a white 4×4 with UN markings. The video, …

    The United Nations are doing their possible best to stabilize and combat sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by United Nations personnel. “Let us declare in one voice: We will not tolerate anyone committing or condoning sexual exploitation and abuse. We will not let anyone cover up these crimes …

Two UN peacekeepers in Mali have died from the coronavirus, officials said Friday. Out of the some 100,000 UN troops deployed on about 15 different missions around the world, these two are the first whose deaths were directly linked to the pandemic. “Unfortunately, I also want to say that yesterday …

Around $1 trillion of debt owed by developing countries would be cancelled under a global deal proposed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Thursday to help them overcome the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s developing economies, which were already struggling with a rapidly …

The United Nations has called for specific action for women on the frontline in the fight against COVID-19. It urged governments to take action for women who make up about 70% of staff of health and social services, adding that the stress and mental burden they often face at home …

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has held high level meetings with the Heads of all the UN Agencies to discuss investment opportunities in Ghana’s agricultural sector. He has also held a separate meeting with the Director-General of FAO, Dr. Qu Dongyu. Discussions during the meetings …

The United Nations’ top human rights official has called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to take action to curb human rights violations by the country’s army. On the final day of a visit to the DR Congo, Michelle Bachelet told UN radio that figures from her …