A day after his latest hospital release, Austin presses for urgent military aid for Ukraine
A day after his latest hospital stay, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has hosted a virtual meeting on Ukraine to help replenish urgently needed ammunition and artillery for Kyiv, as its ammunition stocks run low in its fight against Russia.
Pentagon finishes review of Austin's failure to tell Biden and other leaders about his cancer
The Pentagon has completed its review of Defense Secretaryโs Lloyd Austinโs failure last month to quickly notify the president and other senior leaders about his hospitalization for complications from prostate cancer surgery and how the notification process can be improved.
About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says
Thirteen children are dying everyday of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudanโs Northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10 month war in their country, Medical charity Doctors without Borders or MSF said Monday.
Portuguese chief vs. American deputy in race to lead UN migration agency
The 175 member countries of the U.N. migration agency are casting ballots to choose its leader for the next five years โ an unusual contest between its European director-general and his American deputy, who is looking to oust him from the job.
UN food chief: Billions needed to avert unrest, starvation
The head of the U.N. World Food Program is warning that without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months.
Doctor decries gun violence after school shooting near miss
A pediatric surgeon who left The Covenant School in Nashville moments before a shooter opened fire, killing six people, says she is horrified by the gun violence that has plagued the U.S. Britney Grayson had just finished regaling children about Kenya, where she works as a pediatric surgeon, when she drove out of the parking lot looking for a Starbucks.
UN summit: Don't repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn
Scientists around the world warned governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and urged officials to โavoid trade-offsโ between people and conservation needs in a report Monday.
Kenyaโs new president promises ambitious climate plan
Kenyaโs newly elected president William Ruto said that climate change will be key to the governmentโs agenda and made an ambitious pledge to ramp up clean energy and phase out fossil fuels for electricity by 2030 during his inauguration speech Tuesday.
With forests abound, Africa looks to grow its carbon market
Locals living in once-heavily forested regions across Africa are starting to find their land in high demand as governments and companies seek to improve their climate credentials through carbon credit schemes, where tree-planting offsets carbon dioxide emissions.
East Africa bloc says 50 million face acute food insecurity
More than 50 million people in the wider East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan are projected to be under full-blown famine conditions.
Africaโs wildlife parks managers meet to boost conservation
Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continentโs first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the protection of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and the low quality of many existing conservation areas in the region.
Tanzania's Masaai demand Indigenous rights in UN framework
Tanzaniaโs Maasai people, resisting government pressure to leave their ancestral homes in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, have presented their demands for Indigenous land rights to negotiators in Nairobi finalizing the proposed U.N. global biodiversity framework.
Growing African mangrove forests aim to combat climate woes
In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects, with Mozambique becoming the latest addition to the growing list of countries with large scale mangrove initiatives.
UN Security Council mission visits Mali, urges February vote
A U.N. Security Council mission that is visiting Mali this weekend to assess the security situation is urging the countryโs authorities to set elections for February to meet agreements reached with a West African regional bloc after a coup last year.
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge repeats as Olympic men's marathon champ
Appearing impossibly stronger as the race wore on, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya on Sunday added to his constantly growing legend by dominating in the heat and humidity at Sapporo Odori Park to add the men's marathon gold at the Tokyo Olympics to the gold he won at Rio 2016.
UN-backed vaccine delivery program warns of supply delays
(AP Photo/Brian Inganga)GENEVA โ The U.N.-backed program to ship COVID-19 vaccines worldwide has announced supply delays involving a key Indian manufacturer, a major setback for the ambitious rollout aimed at helping low- and middle-income countries vaccinate their populations and fight the pandemic. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and its partners said Thursday that the Serum Institute of India, a pivotal vaccine maker behind the COVAX program, will face increasing domestic demands as coronavirus infections surge. โDelays in securing supplies of SII-produced COVID-19 vaccine doses are due to the increased demand for COVID-19 vaccines in India,โ Gavi said. The program had been aiming to deliver some 237 million AstraZeneca vaccines through the end of May. AdThe Serum Institute of India, also known as SII, is the world's largest maker of vaccines.