After decades of hard work to get kids into primary schools, the COVID-19 pandemic has now pushed education back to...
So far, COVID-19 hasn’t hit Africa as hard as other regions, but a new study by the World Health Organization...
The economic impact of COVID-19 could increase global poverty for the first time in three decades, pushing more than half...
Late last week, the United Nations published a global “roadmap” to defeat COVID-19, including a new $1 billion trust fund...
Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa and have just made landfall in South Sudan,...
While the world’s attention is turned to the coronavirus outbreak, three UN agencies warned on Tuesday about another crisis that...
Compared to 20 years ago, the world’s poorest are doing far better. But millions of people are still anxious about...
With just 10 more years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, 43 countries in the world are still facing “serious”...
Nineteen years after polio was officially eradicated in the Philippines, the incurable disease has made a resurgence due to widespread...