About 50% of the continent’s children have experienced violence – emotional, sexual, physical and the added dangers of war ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the hostilities could further worsen ...

Two long-running conflicts in Africa are facing very different prospects right now. In Democratic Republic of Congo, a war between the state and the M23 rebels — backed by Rwanda — may be on the verge ...

The United Nations rights chief urged on Friday for warring sides in South Sudan to pull back from the brink, warning that ...

The U.S. is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South ...

Chuol, like many others, said he fled airstrikes in Nasir and sought refuge in Burbeiye, but was forced to flee again after ...

According to the United Nations, 27 out of the 78 counties in South Sudan are impacted by the floods, affecting more than 630,000 people. In most of Twic East County in Jonglei State, fish is the ...

Vatican clerks prepare the loggia ahead of Pope Leo XIV appearance at the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for his first Sunday blessing after his election, in St. Peter's Square at the ...

President Trump met Wednesday with Syria’s new leader, praising him as a “young, attractive guy” and urging him to rid his country of “Palestinian terrorists.” ...

UN peacekeepers have helped end brutal civil wars, reduced dangerous tensions and allowed historic elections. But their lifesaving work is at risk.

BERLIN (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told countries that the world body’s peacekeeping operation is “only as ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ... s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the ...