The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from ...

Millions of people in Somalia are again going hungry but what is driving recurrent food insecurity in the Horn of Africa?

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four ...

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts accused Israel of “sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence" in Gaza ...

For three weeks, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly has been in the news ...

Former boxer Tyson Fury has said he will bring elements of his own sport into Soccer Aid as he teams up with former footballer Wayne Rooney to manage the England team in the charity match. But the ...

Mohammed, 15, learned about the dangers of unexploded ordnance at a UNICEF child-friendly space — knowledge he used to save ...

International peace and security institutions, such as the United Nations Security Council and regional organizations, should ...

Sudan is now the world's largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. After two years of war, over 30 million people - more than ...

As Trump tries to put pressure on the Russian president who is stalling on talk of a ceasefire, The Independent has been told ...

The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...