March 2017

The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is affecting food security in some of the country’s more “stable states,” the head of UN peacekeeping in South Sudan, UNMISS, has said. David Shearer, the UN’s most senior official in the country, was…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began to move food assistance to reach famine-hit and food-insecure people in South Sudan by using a newly opened humanitarian corridor announced by the Government of Sudan this week.…

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The Ethiopian parliament Thursday has extended by four months the state of emergency put in place last October following series of violent protests in the Amhara and Oromia regional states. The House of People’s representatives voted…

SAN FRANCISCO Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, that will be available for sale worldwide April 21. The phone is the first premium offering released by the South Korean…

- attending a one-day summit beside the Dead Sea in Jordan - did not publicly refer to Trump or his statements on Wednesday, but they stressed their own continued backing for an independent Palestinian state. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al…

Ivanka Trump will take an official government role as an unpaid adviser to her father US President Donald Trump, the White House announced on Wednesday. The first daughter, whose husband Jared Kushner also works as a senior advisor to…