With Gaza entering its fourth month of a serious energy crisis, the United Nations today released a further $2.5 million from a pooled humanitarian fund to cover urgent needs in the Palestinian enclave. “The serious decline in living conditions in Gaza continues,” said UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities for the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), Robert Piper, in a press release. The disbursement from the Humanitarian Fund for the oPt will bolster the UN’s emergency fuel operation which primarily supplies fuel to generators to maintain operations in around 190 critical health, water and sanitation installations. Virtually all the two million...

12 August 2016 UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in Zambia joins the Government and people of Zambia and all partners in commemorating the 2016 International Youth Day. In Zambia, today’s record 4.8 million young people aged 15-35 [36.7% of Zambia’s population] – the largest population of young people in its history – present an enormous opportunity to transform our future.  With targeted investments, Zambia’s youth have the potential to be the innovators, creators, builders and leaders of sustainable development. Strategic collaborations in the country continue to identify, advocate for and monitor such investments to ensure every young person’s potential...

  FRIDAY, 11th AUGUST, 2017 HON. CHITALU CHILUFYA, ACTING MINISTER OF HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; CABINET MINISTERS PRESENT; HON. BRIAN MUNDUBILE, THE PROVINCIAL MINISTER FOR NORTHERN PROVINCE; HON. CHRISTOPHER YALUMA, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR MALOLE CONSTITUENCY AND OTHER MPs PRESENT; YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS MWINELUBEMBA KANYANTA MANGA SOSALA II, PARAMOUNT CHIEF CHITIMUKULU; YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESSES CHIEF MAKASA AND CHIEF CHIMBOLA; MEMBERS OF THE PRESS; DISTINGUISHED GUESTS; LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: FROM THE ONSET, I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH SINCERE GRATITUDE, THE WARM RECEPTION THE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN PROVINCE HAVE ACCORDED ME SINCE OUR ARRIVAL YESTERDAY. I AM GRATEFUL TO YOU THE...