With over 826,000 people affected by heavy flooding affecting most of Nigeria, humanitarian agencies continue to step up efforts to provide life-saving assis...

As conflict continues to rage in Yemen, leading to widespread economic hardship and a rampant inflation, the World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm...

821 million people now hungry and over 150 million children stunted, putting hunger eradication goal at risk New evidence continues to signal that the number...

The World Health Organization (WHO) airlifted, through several shipments in August, over 500 tons of essential medicines and medical supplies to Sana’a airpo...

Florida in the United States of America recently declared a state of emergency as a red tide of toxic algae bloomed along its western coastline killing marin...

Insufficient physical activity is a leading risk factor for non-communicable disease, negatively impacting mental health and overall quality of life, accordi...

Rebel violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is escalating inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu province, putting millions at r...

United Nations agencies must join forces at the policy level and refuse interference from tobacco companies in their programmes so the destructive impact of ...

An estimated 78 million babies – or three in five – are not breastfed within the first hour of life, putting them at higher risk of death and disease and mak...

The Challenge Poor health constitutes suffering and deprivation of the most fundamental kind. Over the years, significant strides have been made in increasin...

"I dream about a day when people in my country will stop seeing us, people living with HIV, as threat to society -" Azima I was born prematurely at seven mon...

#StopSoilPollution: 6 reasons why soil pollution should not go unnoticed Soil is a finite resource, meaning its loss and degradation is not recoverable withi...

Find out how Ebola is transmitted, who is at risk of infections, what needs to be done to stop the chain of transmission and to stop an outbreak. After the r...

A deadly attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in Yemen in the key port city of Hudaydah has put hundreds of thousands of people at risk and damage...