According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Ethiopia’s record drought has resulted in a huge surge in desperate parents marryying off their children, with child weddings reported more than doubling this year. Aid organisations are attempting to provide much-needed water and other assistance to drought-stricken households in an attempt to reverse the trend and protect girls
Rohingya living in southeastern Bangladesh said their movements have been further restricted after several hundred refugees were nabbed at Cox’s Bazar beach just after Eid al-Fitr, a time when many Muslims go on holiday
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEFDeputy )’s Executive Director for Programmes, Omar Abdi, addresses the Security Council meeting on Ukraine’s peace and security
Russian forces have started launching a¹qlrtillery attacks on targets in southeastern Ukraine, advancing into Odessa and other sections of the country
Last year, Sara Duterte-Carpio was widely seen as the heir-apparent to her father, Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, as he prepared to wrap up his tumultuous presidency in June 2022
The Chinese government has issued a new directive that forbids Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region from discussing the network of internment camps or accepting calls from international phone numbers ahead of an expected visit by the United Nations human rights chief, a police office in the region told RFA
Yan Boechat reports for VOA from Odesa, Ukraine, where a Russian missile attack occurred. A large shopping mall in the important port city was devastated by the overnight strike
In Chișinău, Republic of Moldova,United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visits a refugee centre. Refugees can get legal and medical help at the centre. Moldova has taken in about 500,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war in the last several months
On May 7, RFE/RL correspondent Maryan Kushnir spent the day with a Ukrainian self-propelled artillery battalion targeting Russian positions in the Kharkiv area
Afghan journalists and activists who fled to Pakistan after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 are concerned about their future in Pakistan and are appealing with the international community to help them in relocating to a third country