Iran Warns Britain Over oil Tanker Seizure The seizure of an Iranian oil tanker by Britain off Gibraltar last week will not be “unanswered”, Iran’s armed forces chief of staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. “Capture...

FAO Alerts on Desert Locust outbreak triggered by heavy rains Heavy rains and cyclones have triggered a recent surge in Desert Locust populations, causing an outbreak to develop in Sudan and Eritrea that is rapidly spreading along both sides of the Red Sea to Saudi...

World Bank Budgets $50 billion for Climate Adaptation and Resilience The World Bank Group has launched its Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience with a climate financing budget of $50 billion spread over between 2021 and 2025. This financing level, an average of $10...

Jim Yong Kim Resigns as World Bank President World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has made the surprise announcement that he is stepping down after six years in the post next month His resignation will take effect from 1 February. Mr Kim, 59, was not due to...

UNICEF Unhappy over 10.5m out-of-school children in Nigeria United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has expressed worry over Nigeria’s 10.5 million Out-of-school children, the highest in the world. It reiterated that in 2018 the primary school enrolment had increased in recent years, with net attendance...

Nigeria Needs $337bn to Implement 2019-2022 SDGs – UN Nigeria needs not less than 337 billion dollars to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 2019 to 2022, the UN Support Plan for the Sahel has estimated. According to the exchange rate by the Central Bank...