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World Food Program chief David Beasley speaks to The Associated Press in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Aug. 19, 2022. Beasley is warning that without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

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UN food chief: Billions needed to avert unrest, starvation
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Fri,03/31/23-6:22PM , 240 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning U.N. World Food Program warned Friday.
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Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud leads a demonstration at Banadir stadium, Mogadishu, Thursday Jan. 12, 2023. The government rally encouraged an uprising against the al-Shabab group amid a month-long military offensive. The African Union appealed for nearly $90 million Wednesday, March 22, 2023, for its peacekeeping force in Somalia, which is providing support to its military forces battling al-Shabab extremists. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

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African Union urges nearly $90 million for its Somali force
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Wed,03/22/23-9:28PM , 491 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The African Union appealed for nearly $90 million Wednesday for its peacekeeping force in Somalia, which is providing support to its military forces battling al-Shabab extremists.
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Near Abidjan, Ivory Coast's port city and fast-growing economic hub, many communities live without clean water on the UN's World Water Day. (March 22)(AP video/Hilaire Zon)

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A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water: UN
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Tue,03/21/23-9:25PM , 239 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A report issued on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation.
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An Afghan woman cleans customers's shoes in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 5, 2023. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, women have been deprived of many of their basic rights. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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Governments criticized for keeping women from peace talks
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Tue,03/07/23-10:42PM , 210 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On the eve of International Women’s Day, leading women’s rights campaigners at the United Nations and the African Union and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate criticized male-dominated governments Tuesday for excluding women from peace negotiations.
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