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Global Leaders Tackle Modern Challenges at U.N. Summit UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Amid a turbulent world filled with conflicts and crises, global leaders convening this week’s annual United Nations gathering face a daunting task. They must strive for unity—not just on pressing issues but on revamping the international systems established post-World War II to handle future threats. Last year, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sounded the alarm about the survival of humanity and our planet and urged leaders to…

UN Food Program, sounds the alarm. More than 70% of the population in the world's youngest country - it became independent from neighboring Sudan only in 2011 - will face hunger this year. Endless conflicts, climate catastrophes or even inflation, the country…

On Saturday, the French president summoned Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Abdallah Hamdok, the head of the Sudanese government. Two interviews to underline, according to the Élysée, France's concerns about the rise of fighting in northern Ethiopia and the development of the humanitarian situation in Tigray. Emmanuel…

This is one of the UN's goals for sustainable development: to eradicate world hunger by 2030. It will not be achieved. It is now a security. According to the UN, malnutrition and hunger, largely driven by the pandemic and economic crisis, increased further in 2020. Chronic hunger now affects almost 10% of the world's population. Asia is the first to be affected, but the trend is particularly worrying…

On Thursday, July 8, the UN pressured Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the great renaissance dam on the Nile, under the leadership of the African Union. Egypt would have liked the UN Security Council to address the issue, but the fifteen members unanimously invited them to reconsider concessions in order to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.…

More than 400,000 people have "crossed the threshold of famine" in Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia at war for eight months, a senior UN official warned on Friday. The organization also urges the rebels to apply the ceasefire decided by Ethiopia. The situation in Tigray has "dramatically worsened", the UN Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs…

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet calls on the Bamako authorities to conduct impartial investigations to combat impunity. Most of the killings and kidnappings are carried out by non-governmental armed groups, especially jihadists, but the Malian security and defense forces are also responsible for some of the human rights violations.…

Published on Wednesday, the latest report from UN experts on the Central African Republic is serious. It describes about forty pages on the human rights violations committed by the various parties to the conflict. He also points to what experts call the "security sector faction" ... members of armed groups or militias recruited or instrumentalized by government members and security forces.…

It is a UN document that will not please Russia. This report, obtained by RFI, produced each year by UN experts working with the Central African Republic, points in particular to the violations of Russian mercenaries. Together with the Central African Army, they would have violated international humanitarian law, according to experts, which recorded abuses committed by armed groups, but also by the…

Two attacks took place in Mali on Friday. One against a military post in Boni in the middle, which left six dead and one wounded among the Malian armed forces. The other against a temporary UN position in the north, which left fifteen injured. Two attacks again bloody Mali on Friday. Shortly after 4 pm, it was Malia's armed…