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International Day of UN Volunteers: Nigeria’s Ebiboderi Opukiri advocates for peace

by Adewale Adenrele on December 6, 2022

Ebiboderi Nkeiruka Opukiri, is a 33-year-old from Nigeria, who is currently serving for peace as a UN Volunteer with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), believes that her

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Women Peacekeepers Play a Unique and Critical Role in DRC- MONUSCO

by Adewale Adenrele on November 16, 2022

Veiled by the heated sun and surrounded by the lush green landscape of Kiwanja Valley in North-Kivu, thirty-one Moroccan peacekeepers

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After official visit to South Sudan, UN Peace Chief Roots for Lasting Peace

by Adewale Adenrele on November 10, 2022

The United Nations head of peacekeeping operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has wrapped up a visit to South Sudan where he called

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United Nations refugee chief calls for greater focus on climate and conflict factors

by Adewale Adenrele on November 4, 2022

Responses to climate change must also consider its link to both conflict and the displacement it causes, UN High Commissioner

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Nigeria: MSF seeks humanitarian aid for troubled northwest child malnutrition

by Adewale Adenrele on September 28, 2022

Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has called on the United Nations to add northwest Nigeria to its humanitarian response

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Somalia: At Least $1 Billion Needed to Avert Famine Says UN Chief

by Adewale Adenrele on September 7, 2022

The U.N. humanitarian chief predicted Tuesday that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia in the coming months and early next year when two more dry

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UN Concerned About Minority Group Discrimination in Benin, Zimbabwe

by Adewale Adenrele on September 1, 2022

A U.N. monitoring committee is urging Benin and Zimbabwe to address alleged discrimination against minority and marginalized groups in their

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1st Ukraine grain ship for Horn of Africa reaches Djibout

by Adewale Adenrele on August 30, 2022

The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine for people in the hungriest parts of the world has docked at the

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DRC: United Nations honors five peacekeepers died in the line of duty

by Adewale Adenrele on August 1, 2022

Members of the UN mission and UN Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix paid tribute on Monday in Goma - in the absence

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UN programme’s new phase to target countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific to empowering rural women

by Adewale Adenrele on March 17, 2022

Four United Nations agencies today announced the forthcoming launch of a new phase of a joint programme that aims to

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