From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and services in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and far beyond. World 08 Mar, 2025
Corruption survey gives many nations worst scores in over a decade. South Sudan slides to the bottom South Sudan slid to the bottom of the index with just eight points, displacing Somalia although the latter country's score dropped to nine. World 11 Feb, 2025
Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan's Darfur region, WHO chief says Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days. World 26 Jan, 2025
Sudan's conflict risks creating the world's largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warns Once in South Sudan, “one in five children in border transit centers suffers from malnutrition,” WFP said. World 06 Mar, 2024
Nepal shows slight improvement in CPI, ranked 108th position with score of 35 Nepal has been ranked 108th position in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report launched by the Transparency International (TI), showing a slight improvement than in 2022. Nepal 30 Jan, 2024
15 percent of Nepal's population do not eat an adequate diet, says WFP Nepal chief Robert Kasca is the WFP Nepal Representative and Country Director. Robert has over 20 years of operational and leadership experience with WFP, the United Nations agency dedicated to fighting hunger and the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Nepal 14 Jan, 2024
UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022 Acute food insecurity is when a person’s inability to consume adequate food puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger. World 03 May, 2023
UN envoy says Sudan's warring sides agree to negotiate The United States and Saudi Arabia have led an international push to get the generals to stop fighting, then engage in deeper negotiations to resolve the crisis. World 01 May, 2023
Triple nexus: Linking humanitarian relief to development, peacebuilding Ethiopia’s big famine in the 1980s was one of the 20th century’s worst humanitarian crises. From 1983 to 1985, an estimated 1 million people starved to death Opinion 03 Jun, 2022
Nepal, Republic of South Sudan establish diplomatic relations Nepal and the Republic of South Sudan have established diplomatic relations. With this, the number of countries with which Nepal has bilateral diplomatic relations has reached 175. Nepal 30 Mar, 2022
As climate dangers rise, scientists predict disasters before they happen For climate scientists reviewing a Pacific Ocean temperature forecast map in November, a bright red, sideways "V", thousands of kilometres long signalled disaster. Environment 01 Mar, 2022
EDITORIAL - Corruption flourishing It surprises no one that Nepal has failed to improve its global standing in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), retaining its 117th position in 2021 as in the previous year. Opinion 27 Jan, 2022
