Obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents worldwide for the first time in history.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to protect U.S. nationals from what he termed “wrongful detention” abroad.
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have declared an Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province, with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second highest cases of cholera outbreak in West and Central Africa.
Nigerian poet and spoken word artist, Maryam Bukar, was on Friday officially designated as the United Nations’ first-ever Global Advocate for Peace in a groundbreaking ceremony...
Dr Ibrahim Abubakar, a professor of infectious diseases at the University College London, says there will be another pandemic and it will not be 100 years...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the world remains far off track to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 targets.