Katy Migiro
Friday, October 28, 2016 - 07:30
Armed groups in South Sudan released 145 children on Tuesday, the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) said, calling on warring parties to stop recruiting child soldiers as the world's youngest nation teeters on the brink of renewed civil war.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 06:37
Former child soldiers in South Sudan said they took up arms to defend themselves after being beaten and almost drowned by government soldiers, and they might return to the battlefield if their lives do not improve, a UNICEF ambassador said.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 08:48
The United Nations has yet to access more than 1,000 Somalis who have been arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in Nairobi, the majority held in a stadium that some have dubbed a “concentration camp”.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 06:31
Fewer than one in a hundred Somali refugees living in the world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab in northern Kenya, are interested in returning home, despite a push for them to do so, the United Nations said.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 09:00
The crisis which broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 was the worst since independence. In the five weeks before a ceasefire was signed on Jan. 23, nearly 690,000 people were displaced and thousands killed.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 07:45
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has identified three priority areas to which it will help Somali refugees return home from Kenya, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 07:50
Half a million Somali refugees living in Kenya will return home over the next three years after the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) signed an agreement with the governments of both countries on Sunday.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 12:45
George Clooney’s Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) issued a “human security warning” for civilians living in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan region and in the disputed Abyei area on Tuesday, saying images of a military buildup could signal a new government offensive.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 10:18
George Clooney’s Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) issued a “human security warning” for civilians living in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan region and in the disputed Abyei area on Tuesday, saying images of a military buildup could signal a new government offensive.
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 07:27
More than 100,000 people were smuggled out of eastern Africa in 2012, heroin seizures are soaring and ivory poaching has risen to levels that could threaten local elephant populations, the United Nations said in a report on organised crime on Tuesday.