BY REUTERS The United Nations’ world food price index rose in November to its highest level since April 2023, recording its biggest gain in 19 months on the back of surging vegetable oil prices, data showed on Friday. The price index, compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) […]
BY REUTERS The chairman of talks aiming for an international treaty to rein in pollution from plastics issued a document on Friday outlining measures that could furnish the basis of a pact, in an attempt to spur discussions as a Dec. 1 deadline approaches. However, some delegates and civil society […]
By Winfred Watenya The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that unchecked climate change, wildfires, and air pollution continue to have “a spiraling, negative impact on health, ecosystems and agriculture”, with millions of deaths attributed to dirty air. “Almost everybody on Earth, basically nine out of 10 people breathe air […]
By Winfred Watenya The United Nations has mourned the loss of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who died at a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, on Thursday, just days after reportedly being set on fire by a boyfriend identified as Dickson Ndiema Marangach. The 33-year-old marathon runner, who lived and trained […]
By AFP The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger. Some five million Sudanese could face calamitous food insecurity in coming months as a nearly yearlong war between rival generals continues to tear the country apart, according […]
