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Gaza: Unified Arab position will ‘help guide the way forward’

·February 28, 2025·2 min read

Addressing journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, he announced that he will be travelling to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, next week, for the Extraordinary Summit of the League of Arab States. The emergency Summit is set to discuss the reconstruction of Gaza, which had been at the centre of...

UN to strengthen cooperation with League of Arab States

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·January 26, 2025·1 min read

Briefing ambassadors, Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, highlighted the League’s vital role in promoting stability in a region marked by persistent conflicts, from the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to the crises in Syria, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya. He commended the League for its longstanding partnership with...

World News in Brief: Migrants Day, hunger in the Arab world, arbitrary arrests in South Sudan

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·December 18, 2024·3 min read

Tragically, the year also saw the highest death toll of migrants in transit. “These challenges are made worse by the rising tide of mis- and disinformation and hate speech which sows division and distorts the valuable contributions migrants are making each and every day,” said Secretary-General António Guterres. The potential...

‘Robust’ cooperation with Arab League can quell conflict in the region

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·June 9, 2023·2 min read

“Together we can achieve what neither organization can achieve on its own,” she said, presenting the UN Secretary-General’s latest report on the important collaboration. Recent strains on multilateralism have seen trust in institutions and processes sorely tested, most recently by the uneven response to the COVID-19 crisis, she said. “Defiance...

UN, African and Arab leaders to hold virtual talks on Sudan crisis

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·April 23, 2023·3 min read

The UN chief spoke earlier in the day to President William Ruto of Kenya and with the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki. Mr. Guterres will attend a virtual meeting on Sudan on Thursday, bringing together the AU Chairperson, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, the Executive...

Arab region registers world’s highest unemployment rate, UN survey finds

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·December 31, 2022·1 min read

However, the Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region, published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) projects post-COVID-19 economic recovery efforts to prompt a very slight decrease next year – to 11.7 per cent. Mounting poverty Meanwhile, poverty measured against national lines...