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Challenges to democracy compound instability in West Africa: Top envoy

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Challenges to democracy compound instability in West Africa: Top envoy 11 January 2024 © UN Liberia A voter registration programme in Liberia (file). West Africa has seen shifting political sands throw up contrasting challenges over the past six months, revealing a stark contrast in the region’s journey towards democracy, the UN envoy for the region said on Thursday…

Gaza: South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court 11 January 2024 UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek The International Court of Justice begins hearing the case of South Africa v. Israel in The Hague. South Africa addressed the UN's highest court on Thursday in a bid to end the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, accusing Israel of carrying out genocide…

Explainer: What is the Genocide Convention?

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: What is the Genocide Convention? 11 January 2024 UN Photo/Violaine Martin Marking the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (2019). South Africa has set out its case accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention, pointing to the current situation in the bombarded, besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians.…

UN underlines need to move forward on peace efforts in Colombia

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN underlines need to move forward on peace efforts in Colombia 11 January 2024 UN Verification Mission in Colombia A mural in Aruaca in Colombia promotes a message of women behind social change and equality. Recent developments in Colombia have highlighted the need to move forward in implementing the 2016 peace agreement signed by the Government and the FARC-EP militia group, UN Special…

Russian strikes continue to wreak havoc across Ukraine

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Russian strikes continue to wreak havoc across Ukraine 11 January 2024 © UNOCHA/Alina Basiuk The Black Sea port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine is being targeted by new missile attacks. Russian strikes have continued to “wreak havoc” on Ukrainian cities, causing death and destruction and leaving millions of civilians without access to vital services, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA)…

What is the International Court of Justice and why does it matter?

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home What is the International Court of Justice and why does it matter? 10 January 2024 UN Photo The United Nations flag flies in front of the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been placed firmly in the global spotlight this month following South Africa’s decision to turn to the world tribunal after accusing Israel…

Security Council strongly condemns Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Security Council strongly condemns Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping 10 January 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Members of the Security-Council gather for a meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security in the Red Sea. The UN Security Council on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning “in the strongest terms” the multiple attacks by Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen which…

Aid mission denials are latest threat to Gaza’s hospitals: OCHA

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Aid mission denials are latest threat to Gaza’s hospitals: OCHA 10 January 2024 WHO Surgeons operate on a patient at Al-Quds hospital in Gaza. (file) Repeated refusals by Israeli authorities to allow UN aid teams to deliver desperately needed humanitarian relief inside Gaza have effectively cut off five hospitals in the north from access to “lifesaving medical supplies and…

World News in Brief: UN helicopter captured in Somalia, Ecuador violence condemned, new Human Rights Council president

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: UN helicopter captured in Somalia, Ecuador violence condemned, new Human Rights Council president 10 January 2024 UN Photo/Sourav Sarker United Nations helicopters at Mogadishu Airport in Somalia. (file) The UN remains concerned about the fate of personnel travelling on one of its helicopters in Somalia that reportedly was seized on Wednesday by al-Shabaab militants,…

‘No end in sight’ to Ukraine war, UN political chief warns

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘No end in sight’ to Ukraine war, UN political chief warns 10 January 2024 © UNOCHA/Oleksii Holenkov Cities across Ukraine, including Dnipro (pictured), were heavily bombed over the festive period. The new year has brought no respite to Ukraine, with recent weeks seeing some of the worst attacks of the nearly three-year war, the UN political affairs chief told the Security Council on…