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Nigeria world population growth, theGrio.com
November 15, 2022
Much of the growth is in developing countries in Africa, where resources "are already stretched."
November 15, 2022
African nations want to increase how much money they receive from schemes that offset greenhouse gas emissions and are looking…
November 7, 2022
Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in Egypt for talks on tackling climate change amid a multitude of competing…
October 30, 2022
The clinic, set up in tents as a temporary way to serve people displaced by fighting, was founded in 2014.
October 20, 2022
In 2010, cholera killed nearly 10,000 people in Haiti after the disease was imported there by U.N. peacekeepers.
October 18, 2022
The United States and Mexico said Monday they are preparing a U.N. resolution that would authorize an international mission to…
October 10, 2022
A Canadian official told The AP the U.N. was “watching the situation in Haiti closely" to assess the nation's request…
September 21, 2022
African Union leader warns of pressure to choose sides in Ukraine, saying Africa “does not want to be the breeding…
September 19, 2022
At the U.N., the 23-year-old poet recited “An Ode We Owe” in hopes of bringing all nations together to tackle…
September 10, 2022
Parts of Africa heavily exposed to rising seas will suffer tens of billions of dollars in damages over the decades,…
September 6, 2022
Since releasing its strategy toward Africa, the U.S. has signaled a commitment to re-establishing its relationships with African nations.
September 5, 2022
When famine was declared in parts of Somalia in 2011, the deaths of a quarter-million people were well underway.
August 11, 2022
In his meeting with Rwanda President Paul Kagame, Blinken is expected to discuss efforts to ease tension in Africa's Great…
August 3, 2022
African officials outlined their priorities for the upcoming U.N. climate summit.
July 23, 2022
A year after the unsolved assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, gang violence has grown worse in Haiti.
May 27, 2022
The World Health Organization described the epidemic as "containable," proposing the creation of a stockpile to share vaccines and drugs.
Sengelese women, theGrio.com
May 23, 2022
First proposed in 2005, the program aims to plant a forest, from Senegal on the Atlantic Ocean in the west…
April 20, 2022
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls on global finance leaders to “get concrete” in finding ways to combat a looming crisis.
The United Nations building
March 30, 2022
The history of Black American activism in foreign affairs through the U.N. is longstanding but largely unknown.
March 19, 2022
Tedros said the crisis in Ukraine was “far from the only crisis to which WHO is responding,” citing ongoing problems…