The United Nations has raised less than a third of the funding needed to prevent famine in Somalia, a spokesman said Wednesday, ahead of a Security Council meeting on the crisis in the drought-hit...
A new vaccine that is cheap to make and does not require refrigeration has shown promise in preventing rotavirus, a contagious and fatal disease that disproportionately strikes children in Africa,...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres travels to Jordan next week to attend an Arab summit following a row over the release of a UN report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. Guterres...
The founder and president of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Dwomoh-Sarpong, has said by the time the world population hits 9 billion, there would not be enough water to serve people living...
Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts...
The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the government was afraid of punishing soldiers who committed abuses during the...
The Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, has called on the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to commence the consideration of rain harvesting in the country. He...
An Indian father slit his daughter's throat with a meat cleaver and dumped her body on her boyfriend's doorstep in a suspected honour killing, police said today. The father is accused of knifing his...
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a result of climate change, the UN has warned. Within two decades, 600 million children...
Indian police Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly murdering his teenage daughter in a so-called honour killing after she was caught dating a local boy he did not approve of. The girl's father slit...
The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after they had fled from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency. The UNHCR said forced...
UNICEF on Wednesday condemned a company selling breast milk from "vulnerable and poor" Cambodian mothers to Americans, hitting out at the commercialisation of nutrients needed by babies inside the...
The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after they had fled from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency. The UNHCR said forced...
A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, the South's defense ministry said. "South Korea and the United States are aware of the North Korean missile launch," said a spokesman for Seoul's...
A fifth round of UN-backed Syria peace talks begins Thursday in Geneva with scant hope of a breakthrough against a backdrop of fighting in Damascus and no sign of compromise. The last session in...
Seoul on Wednesday repatriated the remains of 28 Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War, despite a heated row between the two countries over a US missile defence system. A row of goosestepping...
Recycling the world's wastewater, almost all of which goes untreated, would ease global water shortages while protecting the environment, the United Nations said in a major report on Wednesday....
Once again, the University of Ghana will see another distinguished son of Africa mount the distinguished platform of the famous Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture Series. Dr Kandeh Yumkella,...
Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to improved drinking water since 1990 – an average of 47,000 people every day across...
Syrian jihadists and allied rebels seized a key town from government forces on Tuesday in a new offensive in the central province of Hama, a monitor and fighting factions said. The surprise offensive...
