The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...

Africa’s desire to be fully represented in all decision-making organs of the United Nations (UN), particularly in the security council, is informed by three factors.First, repairing the ...

In a wide-ranging interview with Euronews, Eziakonwa argued that Africa’s growing strategic importance demands a stronger, ...

The “UN 80” initiative announced by Secretary-General António Guterres promises to prepare the United Nations for a new era. The stated goal is to make the institution more responsive ...

In 2005, the African Union adopted the so-called Ezulwini Consensus in Ethiopia for Africa to have at least two permanent and five nonpermanent seats at the U.N. council.

African countries' inadequate access to debt relief and scarce resources is a recipe for social unrest, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday, proposing fresh reforms ...

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six United Nations peacekeepers dead, UN officials said Saturday. Two South African peacekeepers were killed Friday, while a ...

The U.N. and the Dutch foreign ministry said on Friday they had cancelled an LGBTQ-themed event in Senegal after the West African nation warned of repercussions for organisers and voiced opposition to ...

African issues take up nearly 50% of the council’s daily business, and the bulk of its resolutions concerning peace and security. The continent is also home to more than a quarter of UN member ...

The United States would support two permanent seats for African states on the U.N. Security Council, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said on Thursday.