Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 169
Rights experts calls for urgent action to implement South Sudan peace deal
- UN News
Progress on the 2018 peace agreement for South Sudan has been “extremely slow”, UN human rights experts said on Wednesday, calling for urgent action to save lives.
MINUSCA support ‘decisive’ in security operations to protect civilians
- UN News
Support from UN peacekeepers serving with the mission in the Central African Republic, MINUSCA, has proven decisive in protecting civilians alongside Government efforts and amid widespread continuing insecurity, said the UN Special Representative for the country on Wednesday, briefing the Security Council.
Gabons Environment Minister Reflects on Conservation Successes, Future Challenges
- Inter Press Service
Libreville, Oct 18 (IPS) - Over the past few years, Gabon has been successful in its forest conservation efforts. The country has also been able to work hard to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to the 1.5-degree target. Minister of Water, Forests, the Sea, and Environment, Lee White, talks to IPS Correspondent Francis Kokutse:
Mali: Progress on transition, peace process, amid ongoing insecurity
- UN News
The situation in Mali continues to justify sustained international attention and engagement, the top UN official in the West African country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Somalia: UNICEF warns of unprecedented child deaths
- UN News
Thousands of severely malnourished boys and girls in Somalia are at risk of dying, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday, urging donors to step up support amid historic drought.
Impact of Tigray airstrikes on civilians ‘utterly staggering’: UN rights chief
- UN News
Parties to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia must cease all hostilities immediately and work towards a peaceful and lasting solution, the newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, appealed on Tuesday.
Poverty Haunts Resettled Farmers in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
MWENEZI, Zimbabwe, Oct 17 (IPS) - Edious Murewa has for years boasted of owning a 10-hectare piece of land, but now the 52-year-old is full of regrets. He faces poverty years after he invaded part of a farm once owned by a white commercial farmer.
Tigray: Fighting must end, urges Guterres, amid ‘staggering’ level of need
- UN News
Fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is “spiralling out of control”, and there is no military solution to end nearly two years of brutal conflict which has left tens of thousands reportedly dead, while the “social fabric, is being ripped apart”.
A new, financially independent life for former child brides in Mozambique
- UN News
In Mozambique, more than 20 per cent of girls aged between 13 and 17 have been married or live with someone as if they were married. Women’s support groups are putting thousands of them on the road to financial independence, making them less vulnerable to gender-based violence.
Ethiopia: UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ by escalation in fighting across Tigray
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General issued a statement on Saturday expressing grave concern over the escalation of fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where Government troops and separatist forces have been locked in conflict since November 2020.
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