The United Nations has expressed concern that displaced communities in Nigeria — with camps closing and nowhere else to go — risk returning to areas where lethal explosive remnants may be hidden from view. Speaking on the sidelines of a key international meeting in support of landmine action taking place at the UN in Geneva…
Resurgent jihadist attacks and instability in northern Nigeria are pushing hunger to unprecedented levels with thousands facing “famine-like conditions”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Nearly 35 million people in northern Nigeria are “projected to face severe food insecurity during the 2026 lean season”, which stretches from May to September, the UN agency…
The United Nations gender equality agency, UN Women, has said funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organizations working to end violence against women and girls. UN Women, in a report published on Monday, warned that aid cuts, shutdown or suspension of one in three women’s anti-violence programmes. A report, At Risk and Underfunded, based on a…
US President Donald Trump gestures during a joint press conference with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer following their meeting at Chequers, in Aylesbury, central England, on September 18, 2025, on the second day of the US President’s second State Visit. A speech by U.S. President Donald Trump will mark the opening of the 80th session…
More than 10,000 children need treatment for acute malnutrition in Gaza City, where the Israeli army launched a major ground offensive on Tuesday, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, reported. The forced and massive displacement of families from Gaza City is a deadly threat to the most vulnerable,” said Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokeswoman in…
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned Israel’s apparent “weaponisation of food” in Gaza, a war crime, and urged Israel’s military to “stop shooting at people trying to get food”. “Israel’s militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism is in contradiction with international standards on aid distribution,” the UN human rights office said in written notes provided before a…
United Nations refugee agency officials on Tuesday said the number of people who have fled Sudan since the beginning of the civil war in 2023 has surpassed four million, adding that many survivors faced inadequate shelter due to funding shortages. UN refugee agency spokesperson, Eujin Byun, disclosed this during a press briefing in Geneva. “Now…
The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen Christopher Musa, has reiterated the Nigerian Armed Forces’ commitment to United Nations, UN, peacekeeping operations. Gen Musa made this pledge in Abuja while receiving the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Fall. According to a statement by the Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, the…
The United Nations has strongly condemned the attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents and the murder of 40 civilians in Dumba community, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Fall, in a statement on Wednesday, denounced the attack targeted at fishermen and farmers in the area. “I…
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has condemned Wednesday’s truck attack that killed at least 15 people in the city of New Orleans, United States. Media reports indicated that a U.S. male citizen had intentionally driven a pick-up truck into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year in the city’s French quarter shortly after…