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Sudan truce rejection, Sudan peace plan dispute, Burhan rejects ceasefire, thegrio.com
November 24, 2025
Sudan’s Gen. Burhan rejects a U.S.-led ceasefire plan, calling it biased as the country faces mass displacement, famine and a…
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October 8, 2025
Naming the slave trade humanity’s “greatest crime,” Ghana is pushing for reparations, a debt long denied to Black people, at…
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July 10, 2025
“We could be ending AIDS. Instead, the U.S. is abandoning the fight.” United Nations leaders caution the lack of funding…
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March 8, 2025
U.N. agencies have been scrambling to revise their operations and appeal to the administration to restore U.S. support.
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February 8, 2025
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the rebels to lay down their weapons and agree to mediation.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Conflicts Arising Across Africa
March 22, 2024
UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield is working on the various African conflicts destabilizing some countries.
January 12, 2024
Israeli legal advisor Tal Becker told a packed Palace of Peace auditorium that his country is fighting a "war it…
January 11, 2024
Preliminary hearings have begun into South Africa's call for ICJ judges to order a suspension of Israel's military actions in…
December 12, 2023
Tensions between Congo and Rwanda have escalated, heightening the risk of a military confrontation that could draw in Burundi, the…
October 22, 2023
UNHCR said it cut funds to food, education, shelter and health care as hopes to meet the $90.5 million in…
Switzerland Participates In EU Sanctions Against Russia
September 11, 2023
The 54th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council meets from Sept. 11 to Oct. 13, 2023, in…
July 2, 2023
“We have to, as an international community, say we can’t watch this country completely fall apart,” Catherine Russell of the…
June 23, 2023
Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the population expected to face crisis or worse levels of…
June 22, 2023
The U.S. and U.N. are suspending their food aid to Ethiopia as they demand that Ethiopia’s government yield its control over the…
May 12, 2023
The United Nation's top human rights body adopted a resolution Thursday that drew attention to mounting civilian deaths and rights…
March 22, 2023
African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from weather events have agreed to consider swapping debt…
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March 2, 2023
A group of human rights attorneys wants the United Nations to review why Black Americans spend so much time in…
February 11, 2023
The plea came as the U.N. in Haiti released a report on what it described as mass incidents of murder,…
January 17, 2023
The head of the World Food Program says support from donors have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely…
December 23, 2022
The U.N.’s deputy secretary-general urged every country “with capacity” to urgently consider the Haitian government’s request for an international armed…