With senior United Nations officials warning of escalating inter-communal violence and rampant human rights violations in South Sudan, the Security Council today strongly condemned all attacks and provocations against civilians and the UN by armed ...
The conflict in Ukraine has deeply affected the lives of 580,000 children living in non-government controlled areas and close to the front line in the east of the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ...
A bomb attack in the heart of the Turkish capital Ankara – apparently targeting the country’s military – has killed nearly 30 people and injured more than 60. It’s thought to have been caused by ...
Militants have attacked a United Nations base in northern Mali, leaving at least three UN peacekeepers dead and injuring 30 others. Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said shelling hit the ...
The worst drought to hit Ethiopia in 50 years is about to become a crisis according to the charity Save the Children. It is warning that emergency food aid for 10 million Ethiopians will run ...
A car bomb goes off at a busy vegetable market in central Damascus, killing at least eight people and injuring 20 others. The blast on Tuesday hit Masaken Barzeh, a middle-class northern district in the ...
Driven for days to flee the war in Aleppo, thousands of Syrians, mostly women and children, are waiting in the cold to go to Turkey that for the moment keeps its border closed. The governor ...