The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the key role that migrant workers play in the global economy, as well as the “terrible risks” that they are forced to take, to find work.

This was the country’s 13th outbreak – the disease is endemic in DRC – and occurred in the same area as the major 2018 outbreak, which ground on for two years.

In 2020, a Kenyan multi-agency law enforcement team, including customs officials, intercepted a package at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

The evidence is irrefutable: unless we act immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will not be able to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.

Compared to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was “undoubtedly worse” for the Americas, where infections and deaths tripled, the top UN health official there reported on Wednesday.

COVID-19 led to rising food insecurity for around 54 million people living in the vast Asia-Pacific region during 2020.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has begun a COVID-19 vaccination campaign for migrants stranded in Yemen.

The ocean is home to coral reefs, the longest mountain chain in the world, ocean trenches and over 220,000 known species.

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), held last month in Glasgow, was defined by a “reinvigorated multilateralism”, a top UN official said on Tuesday during an online discussion on how the summit’s outcomes will impact climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The President of the General Assembly on Tuesday announced a New Year resolution on vaccine equity, calling on governments to come together on this issue ahead of a major event in mid-January.