The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said that 538 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya in the past week.

The Indian police on Friday confirmed that three people including a gangster were killed in a shootout inside a courtroom in the Indian capital city, Delhi.

Ugandans traveling to neighbouring South Sudan no longer require visas to enter the country.

A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving their assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say.

The UN food agency has launched an urgent appeal for action to reduce the amount of food that is wasted, saying lack of food, hunger and malnutrition affect every country in the world.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday again urged eight key countries which have not yet signed or ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), to do so without delay.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the need for the presence of an African country in the UN Security Council and decried the delay in the implementation of that reform.

Heads of states and governments on Wednesday gathered in New York as part of UN General Assembly to discuss reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent.