An Ebola vaccine campaign has been launched by Sierra Leonean authorities, with at least 5,000 healthcare workers as the target. Ten years ago, during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, many healthcare workers caught the virus.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in theMark G Near East (UNRWA), speaks during the meeting with the Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth Committee).
West Bank Palestinians are suffering, while others in Gaza are in verge of starvation. The entire West Bank economy is collapsing, and they are unable to find employment in Israel. Reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank is Linda Gradstein.
About 740,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine and settled in Bangladesh refugee camps in the months that followed a brutal military crackdown in 2017. Both the insurgents and the junta have kidnapped and forced Rohingya into battle.
Nigerians are becoming creative as a result of increased pricing. Locally known as “okrika,” thrift shopping is very popular and offers a variety of reasonably priced options.
Twenty-five years ago, Anna Wiebe moved to the United States from Ukraine. Following Russia’s 2022 invasion, she was joined by four of her Ukrainian relatives who had fled the country.They settled in North Carolina.But then arrived Hurricane Helene.
United Nations Secretary-General Meets with Former President of the Republic of Iraq.
In Baku, Azerbaijan, a country whose economy is heavily dependent on the sale of fossil fuels, the COP29 climate summit is set to get underway on Monday. Despite warnings that efforts to curb global warming are way off track,world leaders and thousands of delegates will try to negotiate ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions over 12 days.
James Kariuki, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security.
A Bangkok court on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman accused of supporting two Chinese ethnic Uyghur men suspected of carrying out a 2015 bombing that killed 20 people at a Hindu shrine popular with tourists from China.