UNHCR issued a statement explaining that two groups of survivors had been brought to shore off the coast of north-west Indonesia. Believed to have been at sea for more than a month, the UN agency expressed relief that they are now safe in Indonesia. After highlighting their plight, Ann Maymann,...
Signed in the capital Khartoum after months of negotiations following last year’s military coup which derailed the transition, the agreement aims to establish a new constitution. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said he hoped the signing would “pave the way for the return to a civilian-led transition in the country”, and called on...
More than 11.1 million tonnes of essential foodstuffs have been shipped as part of the agreement involving Türkiye, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations, since it was signed on 22 July. ‘Deeply moved’ Speaking from Cairo, where Mr. Guterres was en route from the G20 summit in Bali to the...
The UN-brokered deal which is implemented through a Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) in Istanbul involving Russia, Ukraine, and Türkiye, was signed in July, to allow grain, oil and other foodstuffs to leave the war-torn country for markets overseas – many of which are in desperate need of food from Europe’s...
The development came after Hamid Nouri – a former Iranian prosecutor and prison officer – was arrested at a Stockholm airport in 2019. He was later charged with war crimes and the mass murder of detainees in Iran in 1988, in line with an order issued by the then Supreme Leader...
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