UN human rights chief condemned the assassination of a candidate in Ecuador’s presidential election days ahead of the vote.

Hunger in Sudan has been soaring as the country counts months of war that has hit food supplies and made millions of people to flee.

The United Nations envoy to South Sudan said that the ongoing crisis in the country should be a wake-up call for Juba.

We look back on this day in world and South African history, remembering the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.

To mark World Day against Human Trafficking the Western Cape DSD said 11 victims lured, mostly from Gauteng, were helped.

In a significant move towards restoring peace and stability in strife-torn Haiti, Kenya has stepped forward to lead a multinational force.

The number of climate change-related cases has increased drastically as people turn to fight global warming.

Several West African leaders gathered in Nigeria on Tuesday to tackle the pressing issues of security and democracy in Mali .

CAR citizens have protested against plans for a new constitution enabling the current president to vie for a third term.

The United Nations has raised concern over the ongoing arbitrary arrests and sudden disappearance of politicians in Libya.

The UN says “the end of AIDS” is possible by 2030, but coutioned that the world;s deadliest pandemic could only be halted if leaders grasped the opportunity.

The retired president of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has called for a peaceful resolution of the ongoing DRC conflict.

The United Nations wants the two parties involved in the ongoing deadly clashes in Sudan to be held to account.

A Rwandan member of the United Nations peacekeeping force was killed in an attack by an armed group in the Central African Republic.

After nearly three months of war between rivals in Sudan, the air strike is the latest incident to provoke outrage.

Following a recent food aid halt by USAID, the number of people affected by severe hunger has increased drastically in Ethiopia’s Tigray.

Libya is threatened to face military action unless oil revenues are divided fairly by the end of August this year.

The UN looks forward to coming up with a better way to handle artificial intelligence as it launches the “AI for Good Global Summit”.

Negotiations at the United Nations (UN) have hit a stumbling block as the end of the peacekeeping mission in Mali draws near.

A vote by the Security Council to end a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, at Mali’s own request, was postponed to later this week due to ongoing talks.

The United Nations drug agency reported that annual seizures in the Sahel increased as armed groups tend to profit from the illegal trade.

The Sudan conflict in the region of Darfur has reached “alarming levels” and has taken on a worrying ethnic dimension, according to the UN.

Sudan violence has raged despite the ceasefire that has been established severally in the country’s capital.

According to UN bodies, Algeria has blocked migrants from crossing their border, a situation that has caused tension.

Darfur streets in the most affected country by clashes, Sudan, are littered with the bodies of those who could not escape the war.