Health officials have detected three cases of polio in southern Niger, near the border with Nigeria, the health ministry said Friday, just months after a major UN vaccination operation. Experts from Niger, the World Health Organization and the UN's children agency UNICEF have already arrived in the area to investigate. Polio is a highly infec ...

The United Nations has detained one of its peacekeepers suspected of sexually abusing minors in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN's MINUSCA mission there said Friday. The latest alleged incident was just the latest in a string of cases implicating the blue helmets. The UN had identified the suspect, a Mauritanian national, and placed ...

Namibia will expropriate land owned by foreign absentee landlords and will redefine fair compensation in the coming months, the countryâ s president said Friday. President Hage Geingob made the promise at the conclusion of the south African nation's national conference. Current landowners must make more land available for sale and not only ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday congratulated Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad after the two jointly won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In defending the victims of sexual violence in conflict, they have defended our shared values, he said in a statement. Guterres noted Murad's work as a goodwill ...

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege was operating on Friday when he learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, as crowds at his Panzi hospital erupted into ecstatic celebrations. In a video posted on the Facebook page of the hospital he founded in eastern DR Congo in 1999, co-workers and admirers can be seen swarming around the 63-year-old doctor afte ...

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict, Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen sai ...