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Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.

As Sudan's devastating war enters its third year, UN rights investigators are warning that its "darkest chapters" may still lie ahead, following the massacre of more than 100 people at displacement camps in Darfur over the weekend.

The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent opened on Monday at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

NEW YORK, Apr 14 (IPS) - Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN and Chairman of the UN's Administrative and Budgetary Committee in 1997-1998 that approved Kofi Annan's first reform budget . ...

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11 (IPS) - Since the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to significant bombardment and blockages of humanitarian aid. With aid deliveries having been halted from ...

NAIROBI, Apr 11 (IPS) - More than 13,600 participants from around the world registered for the inaugural CGIAR Science Week at the UN Complex, Nairobi, April 7-12, 2025. Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, the organization's Executive Managing Director, said, ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Apr 11 (IPS) - Europe must understand that the only reasonable and humane way to tackle migrant smuggling is to open regular routes for people to reach Europe in safety and dignity.

Military operations continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after the recent earthquake that killed more than 3,600 people, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.

Roughly 400,000 Syrians have returned home from the region since the fall of the Assad regime last December, while more than a million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have gone back to their communities.

MANDALAY, YANGON, LONDON, Apr 11 (IPS) - Two weeks after a devastating earthquake hit central Myanmar, the military junta is directing flows of international aid to urban centres it controls while bombing civilians in areas held by resistance forces, ...