23 Million Nigerian Girls Married Off In Childhood – UN
The United Nations Women Africa has said Nigeria has the highest child brides in the world with 23 million girls married off in childhood. ...
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Nigeria: Boko Haram injures soldiers, workers after UN convoy ambush
Nigerian Islamists group, Boko Haram on Thursday attacked humanitarian convoy in northeast Nigeria on their way to Bama, Borno State.
Three UN peacekeepers die in Cote d’Ivoire road accident
Three Senegalese peacekeepers under the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire died while on patrol after their vehicle overturned, a s...
Ivory Coast: UN council set to lift country's arms embargo
The United Nations Security Council is set to lift a 12-year-old arms embargo on Ivory Coast on Thursday and renew the U.N. peacekeeping m...
UN: Biggest killer of kids in the CAR not bullets but malnutrition
Three years after conflict erupted in the Central African Republic, the biggest killers of children aren't bullets but malnutrition, m...
Libya: UN envoy urges rapid handover as fragile peace holds
The U.N. envoy to Libya has urged a rapid, complete handover of power to a unity government that arrived in Tripoli a week ago, warning th...
UN backs move to deploy police presence in Burundi
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously backed a resolution that lays the groundwork for deploying a UN police presence in Burundi ...
Tanzania: US agency freezes $473M aid to country over Zanzibar election
A U.S. aid agency has cancelled nearly $500 million of funding for Tanzania after disputed elections in the Zanzibar archipelago of the ea...
Security Council response needed in Western Sahara crisis - UN
The United Nations Security Council must act to ensure Morocco's decision to expel personnel from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the d...
South Sudan: UN sets up inquiry into human rights violations
The United Nations Human Rights Council decided on Wednesday to set up a three-person commission to investigate human rights abuses in So...
Morocco: Government asks UN to shut military office in Western Sahara
Dozens of U.N. international staffers pulled out of the Western Sahara mission, known as MINURSO, on Sunday after Morocco demanded they l...
Sudan: UN Security Council condemns attack on humanitarian convoy in Darfur
The United Nations Security Council on Friday strongly condemned an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Sudan's war-torn Darfur on Wed...
South Sudan militias raped women in lieu of wages, UN says
Militias allied to the South Sudanese army have been allowed to rape women in lieu of wages during fighting against rebel forces, a UN re...
Morocco accuses UN Secretary General of dropping neutral tone in West Sahara dispute
Morocco's government has accused U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of no longer being neutral in the Western Sahara conflict, saying...
France To Press For UN Support For Africa Force To Fight Boko Haram
France will support a bid by the African Union to win the backing of the U.N. Security Council for its five-nation force fighting Islamist m...
Gunmen Seize 89 Boys From South Sudan Camp
Armed men have abducted at least 89 boys in South Sudan, the United Nations children's agency has said. The incident happened in a c...
Boko Haram Must Release Chibok Girls —UN Security Council
The United Nations Security Council has called on Boko Haram to immediately release the more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls and end al...
Chadian Peacekeeper Killed In Attack On UN Base In Northern Mali
Suspected Islamist militants attacked a UN base in northern Mali with car bombs and rockets on Saturday, killing one Chadian member of the U...
54 Soldiers On Death Row: UN To Intervene To Avert Execution
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Executions, Mr. Christof Heyns, has said that “appropriate acti...
Mayor Of Mali Town Killed As Clashes And Abuses Spike In North
The mayor of a town in northern Mali died on Saturday from wounds sustained in an ambush that killed his son, one of a string of attacks hig...
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