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PRESS RELEASE: Professor Michael Ndurumo Named 2025 United Nations in Kenya Person of the Year
Â鶹´«Ã½ in Kenya has named Professor Michael Ndurumo, the first deaf Professor in East Africa and founder of the Africa Institute of Deaf Studies and Research, as the 2025 United Nations in Kenya Person of the Year.
PRESS RELEASE: United Nations Department of Global Communications and World Federation of United Model Associations (WFUNA) Launch New Model UN Mini-Simulation Toolkit to mark United Nations Day
Â鶹´«Ã½ Department of Global Communications (DGC) and the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) announced the launch of a new Model UN Mini-Simulation Toolkit to mark United Nations Day 2025 and the 80th anniversary of the UN Charter.
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that Israel and Hamas have ¡°signed off¡± on the first phase of his 20-point peace plan, following days of intensive indirect negotiations in Egypt.
The offer sounded almost unreal. The UN was fishing around for someone with a knack for building prisons ¨C preferably a woman ¨C to join its mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Would she go?
With clean energy on the rise, the UN Secretary-General renewed his longstanding call for countries to make the transition from fossil fuels that cause global warming.
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