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Inside massive security operation that secured 80th UN General Assembly in New York
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 30, 2025

Securing the week-long session required vast resources, manpower, and technology, particularly as it occurred during a time of heightened global secur...

Opinion: Africa’s inclusion indispensable to a just and effective global order
Korir Sing’oei  |  Sep 28, 2025

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...

Ruto warns UN faces irrelevance without reform
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 27, 2025

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 elevates Horn of Africa agenda at UN General Assembly
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 27, 2025

IGAD Executive Secretary Dr Workneh Gebeyehu engaged with member states, international partners, and development agencies to foster cooperation and pr...

Rwanda calls for Africa’s permanent seat at UN Security Council
New Times  |  Sep 27, 2025

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 urges global financial reform to unlock Sh38.79 trillion for Africa’s climate, development goals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 24, 2025

Ruto urged the international community to release previously pledged funds and reform the global financial architecture to ensure equitable access to...

Ruto urges Gaza ceasefire, hostage release and UN support for Haiti peace mission
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 24, 2025

President Ruto stressed that the suffering of innocent people cannot be ignored, urging all parties to pursue a credible political process to achieve...

AG denies knowledge of police officer’s death in Haiti despite Ruto’s statement at UN
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 24, 2025

Lawyers representing the family argued that the President's public acknowledgement that Bernard Kabiru was among three Kenyan officers who died in Hai...

Haiti’s security crisis ‘is like the Sword of Damocles above us’: Foreign Minister
UN News  |  Sep 24, 2025

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...

Ruto urges nations to take charge of health systems as donor funding declines
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 24, 2025

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...

US to Ruto: Washington can’t fund Kenya-led Haiti security mission alone
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 23, 2025

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...

30 years of advancing gender equality: Achievements, setbacks, and the road ahead
UN News  |  Sep 23, 2025

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...

Ruto demands clear mandate on Haiti, warns mission at risk without global backing
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 22, 2025

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 joins African push for UN Security Council reforms at General Assembly
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 22, 2025

Ruto insisted that Africa's exclusion from the Council's permanent membership was "unacceptable and indefensible," calling it a "historic injustice" t...

Trilateral meeting of AU, EU, UN reiterates support for multilateralism
XINHUA  |  Sep 22, 2025

The three organisations expressed support for ongoing international and regional peace initiatives in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, reaffi...

Kenya to press for urgent interventions in conflict-hit regions at UN General Assembly
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 21, 2025

Ruto is also expected to call for reforms to the UN system, fairer access to global financing and stronger multilateral cooperation.

Kenya seeks UN General Assembly support for beleaguered Haiti mission
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 19, 2025

Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi, who arrived in New York on Thursday, framed Kenya's agenda around peace and security.

UN official in Rwanda to assess peacekeeping costs
New Times  |  Sep 17, 2025

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...

UN Human Rights Council to debate Israel's recent military aggression against Qatar
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 15, 2025

The meeting, set to take place in Geneva, will be the 10th urgent debate convened by the Council since its establishment in 2006.

African Union welcomes resolution deepening UN–AU cooperation on peace, development
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 13, 2025

The resolution also commits $50 million(about Sh6.46 billion) annually in UN-assessed contributions for the Peacebuilding Fund starting January 2025,...

UN General Assembly backs two-state solution for Israel and Palestine
DW News  |  Sep 12, 2025

142 voted in favour, 10 against – including Israel and key ally the United States – and 12 in abstentions.

Explainer: What is the UN General Assembly and details of what is discussed there
DW News  |  Sep 09, 2025

The UN General Assembly convenes every September for monthslong deliberations on challenges collectively facing humanity.

US bars Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, 80 officials from attending UN meeting in New York
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 30, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Palestinian leaders of undermining peace and pushing for “the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palest...

UNESCO urges dialogue as world marks day for remembrance of slave trade, abolition
Mary Wambui  |  Aug 23, 2025

According to the UN, the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, involved the ho...

World marks UN day honouring victims of religion-based violence
Mary Wambui  |  Aug 22, 2025

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...

Canada to recognise Palestinian state, says PM Carney
DW News  |  Jul 31, 2025

Carney justified the decision, saying that it was necessary to preserve hopes of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

UK to recognise Palestine state unless Israel stops Gaza war
DW News  |  Jul 30, 2025

International pressure on Israel to end its military campaign and allow the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged territory has bee...

SHOFCO founder Kennedy Odede awarded 2025 Nelson Mandela Prize
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 19, 2025

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...

UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority
UN News  |  Jun 13, 2025

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 Ahmed Salim: African diplomat who almost led United Nations
Mwangi Maina  |  May 02, 2025

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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