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FG intensifies effort to end desertification
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification says that more than 12 million hectares of land are lost globally to desertification, land degradation and drought...
UN Rescue Services advocate peaceful co-existence
The United Nations Rescue Services, an International non-governmental organization says it will organize a National Peace Summit aimed at promoting global peace, unity and prosperity...
UNFPA urges victims of Gender violence to speak out
A civil society group volunteering for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Beulah Future Leaders Foundation, has trained over one hundred women and female...
Lagos engages communities to preserve Wetlands
Nigeria presently has eleven sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 1,076,728 hectares. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation,...
AU, UN team visit South Sudan
A joint African Union and United Nations team is in South Sudan visiting towns and villages where hundreds of people have been killed and tens...
Myanmar’s Kachin rebels ‘downed’ military helicopter
A prominent rebel movement in Myanmar says it has shot down a helicopter after returning fire following air strikes by the military. An official of...
Boko Haram: UN suspends operations in Borno communities
Humanitarian operations by the United Nations has been suspended temporarily in Dikwa and Damasak, Borno state following Boko Haram attacks. UN resident and humanitarian coordinator...