United Nations Development Programme Stories
UNDP has deducted the unbudgeted amount from the Sh35.8 million funding allocated for the project.
African nations say their outsized contribution to global peacekeeping demands fairer representation.
The two African nations will take up their roles in January 2026, serving a two-year term on the world’s most powerful decision-making body for peace...
The UN warned that displaced populations were facing widespread human rights violations, including murder, summary executions, sexual and gender-based...
This marks DR Congo’s third bid for a seat on the UN Security Council, having previously served in 1982–1983 and 1992–1993 under Mobutu Sese Seko.
The embargo, first imposed in 2018 following years of ethnic conflict that the UN estimates has claimed nearly 400,000 lives, marks its seventh renewa...
The document, which says the plan is guaranteed by U.S. President Donald Trump and mediators Egypt and Qatar, includes sending humanitarian aid to Gaz...
SHOFCO’s impact goes beyond services; it mobilises communities through the SHOFCO Urban Network, empowering over two million Kenyans to lead change lo...
The development will position Nairobi as one of only four cities in the world, alongside New York, Geneva, and Vienna, to host multiple United Nations...
The 2025 order also revokes any purported financial commitment made by the US under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, includi...
The Rwandese government also offered to provide office facilities and essential services, along with a full package of privileges, immunities and tax...
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya expressed its concern over the escalation of violence in Tripoli, calling on parties to take the appropria...
Tuya further announced that Kenya would contribute critical military infrastructure—including helicopters and surveillance units—as part of its expand...
The latest unrest in Libya's capital follows battles on Monday that appeared to consolidate the power of Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, prime minister of the...
The Horn of Africa, including Somalia, remains highly vulnerable to climate-related events. Experts have noted a trend of increasing frequency and int...
While some member states advocate for increases in both assessed and voluntary contributions, others maintain that voluntary funding should remain the...
This means the Security Council has authorised the peacekeeping mission to "use all necessary means" to implement its mandate, including the protectio...
Highlighting the absence of political will among the warring parties to pursue dialogue, Guterres called for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" 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...
The mission's renewal reflects a sobering reality: the country's internal fragility continues to pose a threat to regional peace and security.
The notice has gone to airlines and was given so that Somalia complies with United Nations Resolution 2758, passed in 1971 and which saw the Beijing g...
The summit brought together key leaders from AUSSOM troop-contributing countries, ministers of foreign affairs and defence, as well as representatives...
Lamamra, serving as the Personal Representative of Secretary-General António Guterres, delivered a special message to General Abdel Fattah outlining t...
The president noted that the Security Council’s post-World War II framework is no longer in line with today’s world, which is characterised by a multi...
The international community is at a “critical inflexion point,” the UNODC said, urging that failure to address the problem would have “unprecedented c...
The mission's exit strategy will be informed by progressive improvement in the capacity of the Somali security forces to take over full responsibility...
The Distributed AI Research Institute says these platforms are allowing content that promotes violence, recruits fighters, and dehumanises entire comm...
The realignment of AU troops from ATMIS to AUSSOM is expected to be completed by June 30 this year, ahead of the launch of phase two of the mission, w...
Even before the aid cuts led by the United States, things were backsliding in some countries, and progress has slowed globally since 2016, the report...
The Special Representative further said she was "extremely shocked by the heinous attack" on peacekeepers whose mission is to protect civilians.
