Increased Israeli attacks and the forced transfer of Palestinians have sparked concern over ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a re ...

A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarde ...

Nigeria must immediately end all demolitions and violent evictions in waterfront areas of Lagos once and for all, UN experts have said ...

The Sudanese government on Sunday issued a strong worded statement condemning the reception of commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni on Friday ...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Friday closed its 92nd session after adopting concluding ...

If no funding is secured quickly, food and nutrition assistance will be interrupted as early as April in Somalia, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday, noting that $95 million is needed to ...

Humanitarians continue to highlight the need for adequate housing solutions in Gaza, where displaced Palestinian families are still living in overcrowded shelters which pose&nb ...

Ghana\'s Minister for Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced plans to strengthen security cooperation with Burkina Faso following a deadly extremist attack that claimed the lives of eig ...

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator arrived in South Sudan on Friday to visit one of the most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world, as clashes between government and opposition forces conti ...

The Embassies of nine countries as well as the Delegation of the European Union in South Sudan on Thursday strongly condemned ...

Nearly three years into Sudan’s war, violence is intensifying, famine conditions are looming in parts of the country, and civilians remain trapped between shifting front lines, senior UN political and ...

The government of Ghana has formally notified the government of Togo of its decision to refer their maritime boundary dispute ...