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World
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International
9/14/2024 1:35:11 PM
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Retno L.P. Marsudi of Indonesia as his Special Envoy on Water.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/12/2024 9:24:02 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has underscored the importance of maintaining full commitment to the implementation of the United Nations Charter to establish a system based on the principles and rules of international law as well as the importance of reforming the structure of the global financial system.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/12/2024 8:29:49 PM
Egypt condemned on Thursday Israel's most recent bombing of displaced Palestinians sheltering in schools and facilities operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip.
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World
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Region
9/11/2024 10:00:47 PM
The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Philemon Yang, invited the UN member states to attend the 53rd plenary session and deliver their statements next Tuesday (17 September).
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/11/2024 7:34:23 PM
Several ambassadors and representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries in Egypt affirmed their countries' full support for the legitimate right for the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in the United Nations.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/9/2024 10:04:26 PM
The UN chief said Monday that the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and demanded an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure.
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World
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International
9/4/2024 11:47:26 AM
Rising temperatures should trigger a global "red alert", the United Nations' weather and climate agency chief said Wednesday, after global heat indices again smashed records in August.
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Egypt
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Society
9/3/2024 5:46:50 PM
Egyptian Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad witnessed on Tuesday the signing of the Egyptian Red Sea Initiative (ERSI) project document at $14.25 million, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
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World
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Region
9/3/2024 12:50:01 PM
The United Nations said it held talks Monday with rival powers in Libya over the country's central bank crisis which has threatened vital oil income.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/2/2024 8:36:28 PM
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini has warned against the devastating impact of the ongoing war in Gaza, revealing that more than 70% of the agency's schools in the region have been destroyed or damaged.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/1/2024 9:13:33 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty stressed Sunday Egypt's firm rejection of Ethiopia's unilateral actions regarding the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/1/2024 11:15:42 AM
A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale inoculation, a health official told AFP.
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World
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International
8/31/2024 4:44:48 PM
The United Nations will continue to engage all stakeholders in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, a UN spokesman said, even though Afghanistan’s rulers issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public and severed ties with the UN mission after it criticized them.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/29/2024 2:58:18 PM
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Israel to immediately cease its military operation in the West Bank, stressing that “Only an end to the occupation and a return to a meaningful political process that will establish a two-state solution will bring an end to the violence.”
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World
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Region
8/29/2024 11:20:12 AM
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged oil tanker that remains ablaze in the Red Sea “in consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations said late Wednesday.
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World
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Region
8/28/2024 8:43:11 PM
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon for a year, calling for a "de-escalation" of a recent surge in violence between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/26/2024 9:10:13 PM
The United Nations said Monday it had been forced to halt its humanitarian operations in Gaza due to a new Israeli evacuation order for the Deir al-Balah area, a senior UN official said.
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World
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Region
8/25/2024 12:52:49 PM
The United Nations and Lebanon's prime minister urged de-escalation Sunday after Israel struck Lebanon and Hezbollah said it launched attacks on Israeli positions, in a major escalation of cross-border hostilities.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/24/2024 2:42:24 PM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced Thursday that more than 748,000 refugees and asylum-seekers are registered with the UN agency in Egypt, most of whom are women and children who came fleeing the Sudanese war that broke out in April 2023.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/20/2024 10:09:15 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held discussions on Tuesday with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in the Egyptian coastal city of New Alamein, focusing on recent developments in Gaza and Sudan.
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