Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - Director General of WHO Major Western donors have pressed the World Health Organization to launch a deeper external probe demanding how a major sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo involving its staff was ... Read More

FILE - Antonio Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, at the United Nations in Geneva, March 3, 2020. The United Nations' migration agency has recalled a staff member identified by two U.N. sources in Addis Ababa as the ... Read More

A man is administered a Moderna COVD-19 vaccine outside a mosque on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 8, 2021. The United States is sending more than 3.5 million doses of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, ... Read More

H.E Louisa Atta-Agyemang (left) presenting the award to President Dr Lazarus McCathy Chakwera The Young Democrat Union of Africa (YDUA) under the leadership of its President Louisa Atta-Agyemang has conferred an honorary award for visionary leadership on the Malawian President, Dr Lazarus ... Read More

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2020, photo, children sit by a water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoaivo, Madagascar. Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He’s happy if there’s a handful ... Read More

Captain Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, gives a press conference in 1986 The trial of 14 men, including a former president, has begun in Burkina Faso over the assassination of the country’s revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 34 ... Read More

With the passing of the United Nations’ highly contested Food Systems Summit last month, the task of “feeding the world” has taken on a newfound urgency. But one point apparently lost on the summit’s attendees is that the project of “agricultural ... Read More

Ethiopia's Seifu Tura Abdiwak reacts as he wins the Elite Men's 2021 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Oct. 10, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Ethiopia’s Seifu Tura Abdiwak won the Chicago men’s marathon on Sunday and Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich the women’s ... Read More

Zanzibar-born author Abdulrazak Gurnah poses for a photo call prior to attending a press conference, after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, in London on October 8, 2021 The awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to ... Read More

FILE - This grab from a video provided by the SITE Intelligence Group taken on July 2, 2017, shows Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, one of six hostages then held by al-Qaida's Mali branch. A Franciscan nun from Colombia kidnapped by ... Read More