Securing the week-long session required vast resources, manpower, and technology, particularly as it occurred during a time of heightened global secur...
For Kenya, Africa, and indeed for the developing world, the call for reform is not an academic exercise. It is a matter of survival, dignity, and f...
He urged a complete overhaul of both the UN Security Council and the international financial architecture, arguing that the world body no longer repre...
IGAD Executive Secretary Dr Workneh Gebeyehu engaged with member states, international partners, and development agencies to foster cooperation and pr...
Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe reiterated Rwanda’s support for multilateralism and its interest in hosting UN agencies as part of a commitment to a cos...
Ruto urged the international community to release previously pledged funds and reform the global financial architecture to ensure equitable access to...
President Ruto stressed that the suffering of innocent people cannot be ignored, urging all parties to pursue a credible political process to achieve...
Lawyers representing the family argued that the President's public acknowledgement that Bernard Kabiru was among three Kenyan officers who died in Hai...
Armed gangs control large swathes of the territory, more than six million people are in urgent need of assistance, and 1.4 million have fled their hom...
Speaking on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Ruto said the withdrawal of donor funds had revealed systemic vulne...
Washington and Panama are pushing a draft resolution to replace Kenya-led MSS mission with a Gang Suppression Force, five times larger and more indepe...
Some 708 million women are excluded from the labour market by unpaid care work. Even those who work are pushed into lower paid jobs. Women are exclude...
Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Ruto lamented the lack of international support for a mission that Nairobi had long been caution...
Ruto insisted that Africa's exclusion from the Council's permanent membership was "unacceptable and indefensible," calling it a "historic injustice" t...
The three organisations expressed support for ongoing international and regional peace initiatives in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, reaffi...
As of July 31, 2025, Rwanda ranked second in terms of contribution of uniformed personnel to United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions, with 5,905 per...
The resolution also commits $50 million(about Sh6.46 billion) annually in UN-assessed contributions for the Peacebuilding Fund starting January 2025,...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Palestinian leaders of undermining peace and pushing for “the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palest...
According to the UN, the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, involved the ho...
The day was set aside by a resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1981 to enhance the implementation of existing legal regimes that protect individu...
International pressure on Israel to end its military campaign and allow the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged territory has bee...
The award was presented during a ceremony held at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York on Friday, July 18, as part of the Nelson Mandela Internati...
The resolution was backed by 149 Member States, with 12 voting against and 19 abstaining. Among those opposing the resolution were the United States a...
Salim was, arguably, the closest Africa has come to clinching the UN’s top job. His age, diplomatic poise, and Pan-Africanist ethos made him a standou...
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