Joint Communiqué: United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security Holds its Twenty Fourth Consultative Meeting
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Communiqué )The meeting reviewed the status of the partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) with an update on the implementation of the Joint UN-AU Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security.
AU Concludes High-Level Consultative Workshop on the Political Dimensions of DDR
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (News )The workshop marks a significant milestone in shaping DDR as a politically strategic tool for peace and security in Africa.
Remarks by SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga: 31st Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Speech )“As we commit to “Remember-Unite-Renew", and in honour of the victims, we must continue to ask ourselves what lessons should be learned from the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994”
Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Countries must recommit to ending deaths in childbirth amid major headwinds.
Niger: improving access to services to reduce maternal mortality.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Niger continues to face high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. In 2020, maternal mortality was estimated at 441 deaths per 100 000 live births.
Aid cuts shut down critical services for Sudanese refugees in Chad
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.
UNHCR: Rapid influx of Congolese refugees strains Uganda’s threadbare resources
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Briefing Notes )Uganda, Africa’s largest refugee host, is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of Congolese refugees crossing its western border due to increased insecurity in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Joint Communiqué: United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security Holds its Twenty Fourth Consultative Meeting.
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Communiqué )The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its Twenty Fourth consultative meeting on 17 February 2025, in Addis Ababa.
Ground-breaking Ebola vaccination trial launches today in Uganda
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus.
Strengthening alliances and building movements to end female genital mutilation
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Joint statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus