Indigenous Resources Key to Energy Security and Universal Access in Botswana
Significant wind and solar potential and abundant biomass residues present considerable opportunities for Botswana to enhance domestic energy security and increase access to modern...
Fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2022: improving long-term sustainability of stocks
The Commission today adopted its proposal for fishing opportunities for 2022 for the Baltic Sea. Based on this proposal, EU countries will determine how...
Catastrophe ‘unfolding before our eyes’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
A military confrontation that started 10 months ago in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is spreading, with serious political, economic and humanitarian implications for the...
Tanzanian farmers reap the benefits of rapid agricultural mechanization
Farmers in Tanzania have benefited from rapid transformation, thanks to financial support from the African Development Fund to a national agricultural bank program. With...
Ethiopia: UN chief gravely concerned over ‘unspeakable violence’ in Tigray
Speaking outside the Security Council chamber on Thursday, UN chief António Guterres told journalists that he is gravely concerned about the situation in Ethiopia,...
Rebuilding relationships over natural resources in Darfur
Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day offers the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations an opportunity to celebrate the daily work of...
Report details grave violations against children in Afghanistan
Thousands of boys and girls have been killed or injured over the past two years in Afghanistan, according to the latest UN report on Children and...
Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe’
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began, the UN refugee...
Tanzania signs the Treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency
The United Republic of Tanzania becomes the twenty second (22nd) African Union (AU) Member State to sign the Treaty for the establishment of the...
Mali violence threatens country’s survival
Rapidly spreading violence in Mali is threatening the State’s very survival, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the country said on Friday.
At the end of an 11-day official visit, Alioune Tine recounted stories of increasing extrajudicial executions, civilian kidnappings and gang...