Mali has said it “will not stand idly by” if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako’s top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after both countries’ juntas joined a mutual defence pact. Rebel elite soldiers overthrew Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and ...

For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas – nearly half the planet’s surface – concluding two weeks of talks in New York. The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea came into force in 1994, before marine biodiversity was a ...

The US and its European allies sparred with Russia on Thursday over the war in Ukraine and urged the Group of 20 (G20) nations to keep up pressure on Moscow to end a conflict that they said had destabilized the world. Russia hit back, accusing the West of turning work on the G20 agenda into a ...

By  Funmilayo Ayanwusi The United Nations agency regulating the global aviation industry-the International Civil Aviation Organisation-has issued new recommendations for countries on COVID-19-related requirements for air travel. ICAO, in a new bulletin from its Collaborative Arrangement for ...