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Global youth unemployment set to slip to 73 million in 2022: UN

By AFP

However, the figure is still six million higher than the pre-pandemic level of 2019, with the recovery in youth unemployment lagging behind the bounceback in...

  • Demonstrators march through downtown on 9 April 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. People demanding justice for George Floyd gathered tonight outside the Hennepin County Government Center, where the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been ongoing for the past two weeks. Picture: Stephen Maturen/AFP

    US faces UN review of race record

    The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) will host hearings in Geneva with top US officials, advocates and NGOs about whether Washington is upholding its international obligations to fight racial discrimination.

    3 days ago
  • FILE: Thousands of members of the Hawsa tribe set up barricades and attacked government buildings across Sudan on July 18, eyewitnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south with the Berti tribe. Picture: AFP

    Death toll from Sudan ethnic clashes rises to 105: official

    The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 17,000 people have fled their homes from the fighting, with 14,000 "sheltering in three schools in al-Damazin."

    25 days ago
  • Africa's Sahel region. Picture: Wikimedia Commons.

    UN alarmed as fighting, climate displace five million in Sahel

    At the end of June, 4.8 million people had fled in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, the UNHCR said in a press release to trail a visit by the agency's chief to the troubled region.

    30 days ago
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    Billions of people rely on wild species for food, fuel, income: UN

    From fishing and logging to the use of wild plants in medicines and perfumes, societies across the planet use species that have not been tamed or cultivated,.

    37 days ago
  • Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash

    Central African Republic facing food insecurity crisis, UN warns

    The UN's World Food Programme said 2.2 million people in the war-torn country of 5.5 million were acutely food insecure, and their plight was likely to worsen during the coming months.

    39 days ago
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    SA presidential climate task team in talks with UN to usher in clean energy

    A high-level delegation representing the government has been in talks with the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

    53 days ago
  • FILE: "The climate crisis is our number one emergency," said UN chief Antonio Guterres. Picture: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP

    UN chief calls for ending 'age of fossil fuels'

    The UN chief accused the fossil fuel industry of having tried for decades to convince leaders and sway public opinion of its limited responsibility for climate change, and for seeking to "undermine ambitious climate policies."

    58 days ago
  • FILE: The Ukrainian flag flutters between buildings destroyed in bombardment, in the Ukrainian town of Borodianka, in the Kyiv region on 17 April 2022. Picture: Sergei SUPINSKY/AFP

    UN issues war crimes warning after death sentences in Ukraine war

    The UN Human Rights Office said it was concerned about the death sentences imposed Thursday by pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine on two British citizens and one Moroccan man captured by Russian troops.

    65 days ago
  • Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Severodonetsk, during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on 26 May 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. Picture: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP

    UN chief warns impact of Ukraine war on world is worsening

    UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the consequences for the world of Russia's invasion of Ukraine are worsening, with 1.6 billion people likely to be affected.

    66 days ago
  • This handout picture taken on 17 March 2022 and released by Presidential Press Unit Uganda shows General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al–Burhan, the chairperson of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of the Republic of the Sudan, holding bilateral talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (not pictured) at the State House, in Entebbe. Picture: Handout / Presidential Press Unit of Uganda / AFP

    Sudan starts post-coup talks without key civilian bloc

    The military takeover derailed a fragile transition to civilian rule that had been established following the 2019 ouster of president Omar al-Bashir.

    67 days ago
  • Activists of the Extincion Rebellion climate action movement block a street in central Stockholm on June 3, 2022, in connection with the Stockholm +50 UN meeting. Picture: 
Meli PETERSSON ELLAFI / TT News Agency / AFP

    Climate action must not be delayed by global crises, UN talks told

    The summary to this year's landmark climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that any further delay in action "will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all".

    69 days ago
  • FILE: Senegalese soldiers of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali MINUSMA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali) patrol on foot in the streets of Gao, on 24 July 2019. Picture: AFP

    UN peacekeeper killed in Mali 'terrorist' attack

    The casualties were members of the mission's Jordanian contingent, a security official said separately on condition of anonymity.

    73 days ago
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    Cyclones killed 214 in Madagascar this year: UN

    "Six tropical weather systems hit Madagascar from January to April 2022, killing at least 214 people and affecting about 571,100 across the country," the humanitarian agency OCHA said.

    74 days ago
  • This handout image taken and released on 25 May 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) shows a screen of UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet (L) attending a virtual meeting with China's President Xi Jinping, in Guangzhou. Picture: Handout / OHCHR / AFP

    Xi speaks with UN rights chief as Xinjiang row rages

    China's Communist Party is accused of detaining over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western region as part of a years-long crackdown the United States and lawmakers in other Western countries have labelled a "genocide".

    81 days ago
  • Evacuees sit near luggage in the train station hall in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine on 8 April 2022 after a rocket attack.

    More than 100 million people forcibly displaced: UN

    UNHCR said the numbers of forcibly displaced people rose towards 90 million by the end of 2021, spurred by violence in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Nigeria.

    83 days ago
  • FILE: A total of 56 deaths and nearly 1.5 million cases of "fever" have been reported in North Korea since the country announced its first Covid case a week ago, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Picture: AFP

    UN warns that North Korea's COVID-19 response could have 'dire consequenses'

    Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered nationwide lockdowns to try and slow the spread of the disease through the country's unvaccinated population, and deployed the military after what he has called a botched response to the outbreak.

    89 days ago
  • The remains of houses that were damaged in the floods in KwaZulu-Natal in April 2022. Picture: GCIS

    UN contributes R21 million to KZN relief fund

    The province is still picking up the pieces after last month's disaster in which over 400 people died and thousands more have been left homeless.

    93 days ago
  • A Palestinian journalist protests the death of veteran Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead while covering an Israeli army raid in Jenin, in the West Bank biblical city of Bethlehem on May 11, 2022. Picture: Hazem Bader / AFP.

    UN demands probe into killing of Al Jazeera journalist

    Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead as she covered an Israeli army raid.

    95 days ago
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