Latest UN Africa News
Latest Africa-focused news stories from the United Nations and UN agencies
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INTERVIEW – Upcoming visit a chance for the Security Council to see, firsthand, the challenges facing the people of South Sudan
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council is expected to visit South Sudan next week.
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FEATURE: WFP in Emergency Operation to Assist Around 80,000 South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda
Halima, aged 22, is from the village of Yei in South Sudan. Now, though, Yei is only a name, and a distant dream for her and her four children. Bidi Bidi: she will have to get used to that, as the new name for her new home. Bidi Bidi. Besides this name and its new beats, she will learn new names, of new neighbours, too. Her husband is not here with her; he was shot dead two weeks ago, when her village was attacked.
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UN agriculture chief stresses role of healthy oceans as drivers of Africa’s prosperity
Addressing an African ministerial conference, the head of the United Nations agricultural agency today stressed the need to mitigate the impacts of climate change and illegal fishing on oceans and coastal communities as fisheries and aquaculture emerge as driving forces behind the transformation of the continent’s economies.
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Bringing the blue world into the green economy
With fisheries and aquaculture emerging as transformational forces for African economies, more needs to be done to mitigate the impacts of climate change and illegal fishing on oceans and coastal communities.
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UN experts urge Sudan to drop charges carrying death penalty against six human rights activists
A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged the Sudanese authorities to drop charges – which carry the death penalty – brought against six human rights activists in the country.
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Somalia: UN envoy condemns terrorist attack on Mogadishu hotel
The United Nations envoy in Somalia has spoken out against the bombing yesterday of a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, that killed at least 13 people and injured more than 20.
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Secretary-General's video message to 2016 United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East
I am pleased to greet the 2016 United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East. I thank the Government of the Republic of South Africa for hosting, and the Embassy of Sweden for its support. For a quarter-century, these seminars have promoted dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. They have brought journalists and experts together to examine how local and international media can constructively and fairly cover the Middle East.
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Guinea-Bissau: Political impasse needs to be broken to allow economic reforms to proceed, reports UN envoy
In his briefing to the United Nations Security Council today, a senior United Nations official emphasized the need for Guinea-Bissau’s political leaders to put aside partisan considerations and focus on national interests and the welfare of the suffering population.
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UN food relief agency needs $48 million for school meals programme in West and Central Africa
The United Nations food relief agency today warned that it urgently needs $48 million for its school meals assistance programme in West and Central Africa to avoid having more than 1.3 million children across West and Central Africa risk missing out its school meals as widening financial constraints force it to reduce its reach in the region.
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UN rapporteur calls for urgent action to protect hundreds of thousands of displaced people in north-eastern Nigeria
Speaking at the end of a four-day visit to Nigeria, the United Nations expert on internally displaced persons (IPDs) has called on the country’s authorities and the international community to act urgently to ensure that the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in its northeast are protected.