Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki will lead a Commonwealth election observation team to Nigeria, which will hold Africa's largest democratic exercise on February 25. Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission invited Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland KC to form the Commonwealth Observer Group. In January 2023, 176,846
UN News - Up to 10 million people could die annually by 2050 due to anti-microbial resistance (AMR), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report launched in Bridgetown, Barbados, highlighting the need to curtail pollution created by the pharmaceuticals, agricultural and healthcare sectors. The study focuses
UN News - After a massive earthquake hit southern Türkiye and northern Syria in the early hours of Monday, prompting fears of a humanitarian crisis, UN aid agencies have scrambled to help many thousands of reported victims, including those still believed to be buried under
UN News - Two UN aid convoys have reached communities with acute needs near the contact line in Ukraine’s war-shattered east this week, relief coordinators reported. Medicines, roofing repair kits, bottled water and solar lamps were offloaded, highlighting the desperate plight of many thousands of people
UN News - UN agencies have welcomed a pledge by 12 African countries to end AIDS in children by 2030, announced at a meeting in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The first ministerial meeting of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in children marked a step up in action
UN News - The global economy is set to slow down this year before bouncing back in 2024, a senior official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said, citing China’s sudden re-opening following the end of its “zero-COVID” policy, and a mild winter, in
Media Release - No earthquake, drought or hurricane in recorded history has claimed more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the world’s largest disaster response network, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The shocking death toll—estimated at more than
UN News - The head of the UN health agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and that now is not the time to declare the pandemic over. Tedros’s decision follows the advice offered at the latest coronavirus Emergency Committee meeting last Friday, held at the
The United States and the European Union announced an agreement to accelerate and improve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting, and the electric grid. When discussing the initiative shortly before its official announcement, a senior US administration official referred
Hopes are up following Bahamian Prime Minister and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chair Philip Davis’s trip to Washington last week, as this seems to signal the "reengagement" of the United States to the region. In an analysis by Wazim Mowla, Associate Director of Caribbean Initiative, while the
