UN: All of St Vincent without clean water after volcanic eruption
According to reports, around 20,000 evacuees from the large island nation still need shelter KINGSTOWN, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The…
Nearly a million people facing severe hunger in Mozambique: UN
The World Food Programme (WFP) said about 950,000 people are starving in Mozambique GENEVA, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Almost one…
Covid-19: WHO urges halt to sale of live wild mammals in food markets
GENEVA, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization called for a halt to the sale of live wild mammals…
UN Burundi office to close May 31
Evariste Ndayishimiye, President of Burundi UNITED NATIONS, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United Nations special envoy’s office to Burundi will…
Mexico detains 30 Marines accused of disappearances
MEXICO CITY, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearances of an…
France activates crisis centre after clergy kidnapped in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France has activated its foreign ministry crisis centre after seven Catholic clergy, five of them Haitian…
Radical leftist inches into lead as Peru counts presidential votes
An election worker checks the temperature of a Quechua indigenous person arriving to vote at a polling station in the…
Brazil judge halts parts of Pres Bolsonaro’s decrees to relax gun laws
The four decrees increase the number of firearms Brazilians can own from four to six BRASILIA, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) —…
Covid-19: UK hits target to offer vaccine to all over-50s by mid-April – govt
LONDON, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain said it had met its target to offer by April 15 a coronavirus vaccine…
G7 urges Russia to stop ‘provocations,’ de-escalate on Ukraine
PARIS, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The G7 foreign ministers called on Russia to stop its “provocations” and “de-escalate tensions” following…