The delivery of covid vaccines through the COVAX initiative will top the agenda of the Tunisian delegation's visit to Switzerland, a source said yesterday. The source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that...

The US on Wednesday expressed concern at the presence of Belarus and Syria as Executive Board members of the World Health Organization (WHO), saying they have conducted "abuses" against...

The World Health Organisation will start COVID-19 vaccinations next week in north Yemen where the Houthi authorities in control have played down the impact of the pandemic, largely denying...

The Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad was elected to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) executive board last week, igniting outrage amongst medical workers and activists who fear it will...

The World Health Organisation has called for access to patients in the Gaza Strip and free passage to evacuate them for medical treatment, Reuters reported on Friday. WHO Spokesperson...

The 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) yesterday gathered to back a resolution on health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories, Anadolu Agency reports. The resolution was passed despite opposition from Israel...

World Health Organisation officials today called for a humanitarian pause in Israel's bombardment of Gaza to allow access for aid as the health system in the Palestinian enclave faces...

War-torn Yemen received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, UNICEF said, one week after the country's coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency". "Yemen received 360,000...

Syria will take delivery within weeks of its first COVID-19 vaccines from the global vaccine sharing platform COVAX, allowing it to kick off its national inoculation programme as early...

Across the Middle East and North Africa despite some limited reforms and women’s campaigns many women continue to face daily violence by men and Covid-19 lockdowns have increased the cases of domestic violence

At least 400,000 Yemeni children under five could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported...

Kuwait has contributed to the medical treatment of 35,000 cancer patients in Yemen, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday. "Thanks to the generous support from the state...

Yemen expects a first batch of 2.3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by March through the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, and Saudi Arabia could separately finance shots for around 50 per...

The World Heath Organization is deploying teams across Syria for a vaccination programme that will be rolled out both in government-held areas and territory outside state control, perhaps as...

Dubai yesterday launched a new initiative to speed up the distribution of coronavirus vaccines around the world. The Dubai Media Office announced that the initiative was sponsored by UAE...

Hamas yesterday welcomed the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s decision not to agree to an Israeli proposal to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health...

The General Director of Association 302 to Defend Refugees Rights, Ali Huweidi, welcomed the Lebanese government's decision to provide COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon free of charge...

The occupation's crimes are committed without any moral, religious, legal or human deterrents. It executes its crimes against prisoners who are unlawfully imprisoned in Israeli prisons through the actions...

The World Health Organisation has used an aircraft belonging to the Syrian regime to deliver medical supplies to the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, making it the latest of...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday that due to lack of funding, it had been forced to stop financial support for about 10,000 health workers in Yemen....

It seems that what Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo said at the Brazilian Senate in February 2020: "There is unfortunately still vast anti-Israel bias in bodies...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday condemned Israel for its violations of health rights in the Palestinian territories and in the occupied Golan Heights during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has delivered five new coronavirus testing kits to the Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip, the UN Middle East special envoy, Nickolay Mladenov,...

A few days after Gaza's Health Ministry warned against the shortage of COVID-19 testing swabs, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov hailed the World...

It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf...

The Houthi will close Sanaa International Airport to relief flights including the United Nations from today. The group's foreign ministry said in a letter sent to the United Nations...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday warned that the dialysis centres in Yemen suffer from a severe shortage of essential supplies such as medication and fuel to run hospital...

The UN on Monday voiced "total" solidarity with Lebanon, saying it will continue to support the country "in every possible way" following massive explosions that struck the Beirut port...

The World Bank will finance a project worth $26.9 million to confront the repercussions of COVID-19 in Yemen, the country's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Najib Al-Ouj,...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a stark warning about the spread of the coronavirus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. "We are at a...

Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid...

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation yesterday warned that more than 50,000 children under the age of five could die this year in the...