Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/20/2024 12:42:00 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb said on Sunday that the brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip has exposed what he described as "global schizophrenia".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/19/2024 12:05:50 PM
The United Nations said 800,000 people had been "forced to flee" Israel's assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/18/2024 9:23:15 PM
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Saturday that 800,000 people had been "forced to flee" Gaza's far-southern city of Rafah since Israel began military operations there this month.
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World
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War in Sudan
5/17/2024 1:14:22 PM
The United Nations warned on Friday that it had only received 12 per cent of the $2.7 billion being sought for war-wracked Sudan, adding that "famine is closing in".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/16/2024 2:44:32 PM
The United Nations’ top court opens two days of hearings on Thursday into a request from South Africa to make sure Israel halts its military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population has sought shelter.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/16/2024 2:32:00 AM
An unofficial version of the final statement of Thursday's 33rd Arab Summit in Bahrain, obtained by Ahram Online, includes a call from the Arab states to "deploy international protection and peacekeeping forces under the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian territory until the two-state solution is implemented."
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/15/2024 10:42:00 AM
The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly 450,000 people have been forcefully displaced from Rafah since Israel began issuing evacuation orders for the south Gaza city eight days ago.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/14/2024 6:34:45 PM
Haitham Nouri outlines the factors influencing various countries’ decisions during the United Nations General Assembly vote on Palestine’s full membership
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/14/2024 10:23:13 AM
More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli army attacks on southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says.
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World
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Region
5/13/2024 8:08:33 PM
The United Nations on Monday expressed fears at what it called a "rapidly worsening" outbreak of cholera in war-ravaged Yemen, with more than 40,000 suspected cases since October, mainly in areas controlled by Houthi rebels.
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World
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War in Sudan
5/13/2024 1:06:42 PM
Clashes reignited between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitaries earlier this week in the key Darfur town of El-Fasher, the United Nations said Sunday, killing at least 27 people in one day.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/11/2024 1:02:42 PM
Egypt welcomed Friday’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) vote in favour of the Arab-proposed resolution to grant Palestine full membership in the United Nations, considering it a historic milestone.
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World
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International
5/11/2024 12:20:14 PM
Flash floods that have ripped through northern Afghanistan left more than 200 people dead in a single province, the United Nations said on Saturday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/11/2024 12:19:46 PM
United Nations and European officials Friday condemned Israeli attacks against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in east Jerusalem, which have forced it to temporarily close its headquarters.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/10/2024 6:53:00 PM
The United Nations General Assembly voted by a more than two-thirds majority Friday on an amended Arab-proposed draft resolution to reconsider and support the State of Palestine's membership in the UN.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/10/2024 6:45:43 PM
Dr. Nima Abed, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Egypt, praised Egypt for its extraordinary achievement in eliminating hepatitis C, calling it an exceptional milestone in a recent episode of the United Nations in Egypt podcast.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/10/2024 2:25:25 PM
More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said Friday, with the southern Gaza city under threat of a full-scale Israeli ground invasion.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/9/2024 10:17:33 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, emphasised on Thursday the necessity of working to ensure the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination by recognizing an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.
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World
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Africa
5/9/2024 9:15:56 PM
Somalia has asked the United Nations to end its political mission that has been present in the country for more than a decade when its mandate expires in October, according to a letter seen Thursday by AFP.
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Business
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Economy
5/7/2024 5:25:15 PM
Revenues from Egypt’s tourism sector and Suez Canal in the current FY2023/2024, which ends on 30 June, and the upcoming FY2024/2025 could shrink by up to $13.7 billion the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said in a new study.
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