UN report: Over one million displaced in Myanmar amid violence
BANGKOK—The United Nations’ humanitarian relief agency says the number of people displaced within strife-torn Myanmar has for the first time exceeded one million, with...
Turkey breaks off high-level talks with Greece as rift grows
ISTANBUL—Turkey will no longer hold high-level talks with neighboring Greece, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said June 1 amid rising tensions between the traditional...
People for Peace: Supporting victims of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
There is an “urgent need” to support the victims of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) according to...
Africa provides a ‘home for hope’ despite new challenges: UN chief
On Africa Day, the world celebrates the diverse and dynamic continent’s “enormous promise and potential,” the UN chief said in an upbeat message to...
The United States runs aground on Latin American and Caribbean dignity
The actions of the U.S. government leading up to the Los Angeles Summit of the Americas are being questioned. Voices raised against the unilateral...
Russia, Ukraine, the West and Africa’s agricultural woes
Joe Mzinga is coordinator for Small Scale Farmers Forum in Eastern and Southern Africa. He told Africa Watch from his home in Dar Es...
Will U.S. troops headed back to Somalia pose more problems?
The Biden Administration is sending hundreds of U.S. soldiers back into Somalia to “advise and assist” and on a “training mission” for African forces...
Killing in Nigeria based on religion condemned
Nigeria’s renowned Islamic theologian Ahmad Gumi, according to PRNigeria, said the lynching of Deborah Yakubu, a female Christian student at Sokoto’s Shehu Shagari College...
UN chief: Food insecurity threatens societies, exacerbates conflicts, ‘no country is immune’
“When war is waged, people go hungry,” Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by...
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St. Kitts dissolves Parliament, fires several top officials SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The prime minister of the eastern Caribbean island of St. Kitts and Nevis has...