Month: January 2024

“Sudan is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions. It's a living nightmare for children,” Mandeep O’Brien said this week in an interview with UN News.  Nearly 10 months have passed since clashes erupted between the Sudanese Army and a rival group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), leaving14 million children in desperate need of lifesaving assistance. Child displacement crisis  Ms. O’Brien said the fighting has sparked the world’s largest child displacement crisis. More than 3.5 million boys and girls have fled their […]

Sierra Leone shares four major rivers with the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Liberia, including the Great Scarcies, Little Scarcies and Moa shared with Guinea, and Mano River shared with Liberia. All provide crucial freshwater that sustains ecosystems, livelihoods and the well-being of communities.   In this context, Sierra Leone has confirmed its intention to accelerate the accession process to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and […]

Through training with the International Trade Centre (ITC), women entrepreneurs learned to process and preserve fruits and vegetables along with preparing and packaging jams, tomato ketchup, and chilies. A first cohort included 55 women entrepreneurs, including farmers and food vendors. They were trained on simple, appropriate, and affordable ways of processing and preserving fresh produce along with preparing and packaging jams, ketchups, and chilies. They also studied entrepreneurial skills such […]

On 25 January, Cambodia succeeded Tanzania in assuming the chairmanship of the Geneva Chapter of the Group of G77 and China. The bloc, a coalition of 135 developing nations, has several permanent institutional structures at the UN, across Geneva, Nairobi, Paris, Rome and Vienna. “It is encouraging to witness two least developed countries pass the heavy and solemn torch of this group, at a time where countries at the frontlines of development […]

Save the Children launches new report with key findings from more than 500 refugees and migrants living in European host countries as EU leaders finalise detrimental new Pact on Migration and Asylum; 56% of children from countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa who responded to Save the Children’s questionnaire reported feeling in danger on their way to Europe, with some children describing being beaten and threatened by border […]

Three Burkina Faso military drone strikes that the government claimed targeted Islamist fighters killed civilians at two crowded markets and a funeral since August 2023; The Burkina Faso military used one of the most accurate weapons in its arsenal to attack large groups of people, causing the loss of numerous civilian lives in violation of the laws of war; The government should urgently and impartially investigate these apparent war crimes, hold those responsible to […]