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The United Nations envoy for Yemen expressed confidence on Thursday that a solution can be found to prevent further violence in and around the port city of Hodeida. “I am confident that we can reach an agreement to avert any Read more
Rocket fire this week across the border between Gaza and Israel shows how close the region is “to the brink of war”, a senior United Nations official warned on Wednesday, urging the international community to do more to help Israelis Read more
Following a decision on Tuesday by the United States to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, the United Nations chief said he was “deeply concerned” by the move, and called on all parties to preserve the deal. President Read more
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has congratulated Lebanon on holding parliamentary elections on Sunday (April 6) and called on the country’s political leaders to work in “a spirit of unity”. In a statement released Wednesday, Guterres urged the country’s political Read more
The United Nations is launching as of Thursday (April 5) consultations with Libyans on the future of the country as it prepares to help the conflict-ridden nation come up with a new constitution ahead of this year planned elections. The Read more
King Mohammed VI has informed the United Nations Secretary-General of Morocco’s rejection of the Polisario separatists’ provocations in the buffer zone, east of the Moroccan security wall, and will inform the leaders of all friendly countries of the latest developments Read more
Libya’s shaky financial position, looming humanitarian crisis and the inability of State authorities to provide services have created a “vicious cycle” where groups with vested interests are trying to step in and undermine the Government, the United Nations envoy to Read more
The United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, which is facing an acute funding shortage, is seeking more than $800 million for its emergency programs for Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The appeal would enable the United Nations Relief and Read more
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the double bombing in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left over 40 people dead, underscoring that there can be no military solution to the crisis plaguing the North African Read more
A decade after Hamas seized the Gaza Strip, the living conditions for two million people in the Palestinian enclave are deteriorating “further and faster” than the prediction made in 2012 that the enclave would become “unlivable” by 2020, a new Read more