In order for Africa to be liberated from hunger and unemployment among its youths, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) yesterday advised the continent to embrace modern method of farming.
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Africa: Embrace Modernized Farming Techniques -UN
The United Nations is gathering supplies for some 130,000 people in southern Africa on alert for potential evacuation from flood-risk zones following weeks of torrential rains in northern Mozambique and neighbouring Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Southern Africa: UN Aid Agencies on Alert for Potential Floods in Region
The major political parties dealt a blow to the draft constitution on Thursday, taking antagonistic positions in the review process. MPs rejected for a second time, an attempt to hold a meeting to seek unity in Naivasha, meaning that the squabbling could spill over to the floor of the House on Tuesday afternoon.
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Kenya: Draft Law Setback as Politicians Squabble
Two peacekeepers who were missing after an attack on an African Union-United Nations patrol in Darfur have made a safe return with the assistance of the local population, the joint mission reported today.
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Sudan: Missing Peacekeepers Found After Darfur Attack
A search is underway for two peacekeepers missing after an ambush on a joint African Union-United Nations patrol in an area of Darfur that has been the scene of recent clashes.
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Sudan: Fighters Ambush Darfur Peacekeepers
To help victims of the deadly mudslides in eastern Uganda, the United Nations refugee agency today announced that it will help thousands of people forced from their homes by the torrential rains.
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Uganda: UN Refugee Agency to Rush Aid to Victims of Deadly Mudslides
Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in developing renewable energy projects with initiatives aimed at producing clean and ‘green’ energy remaining largely under-exploited, warned a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Africa: Continent Underachieving in Development of ‘Green’ Energy Economy - UN Report
A spokesman for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says the agency will continue distributing food aid to war-torn Somalia despite Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgent group orders to cease all its humanitarian operations.
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Somalia: WFP Continue With Aid Work - Spokesman
An approaching food crisis in Niger has prompted the United Nations and its NGO partners to issue an appeal for aid internationally. According the United Nations, 7.8 million Nigeriens, or three-fifths of the country’s population, are facing moderate to severe food security due to lack of rainfall during the rainy season and resulting insufficient harvests.
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Niger: UN Calls for International Aid to Thwart Second Food Crisis
The top United Nations envoy in Côte d’Ivoire today met with the African mediator seeking to end the political crisis threatening the much-delayed elections in the divided West African country.
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Côte d’Ivoire: UN Envoy Meets with African Mediator in Bid to Solve Electoral Crisis