Environmentalists, pressure groups and other stakeholders are applauding the decision to provide loss and damage funding for vulnerable countries hard hit by climate disasters.
At least nineteen people died after a commercial flight operated by Precision Air crash-landed in Lake Victoria in Tanzania this morning.
Earlier on, nbc News spoke to Anna Mwasyoke, the acting News Editor at the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation.
Russia says it will supply more than 500 thousand metric tons of grain to all affected countries, including those in Africa, for free.
President Hage Geingob has congratulated Brazil's President-elect, Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva, on his victory in the just-ended elections.
In the closely contested elections, Da Silva received 50.8% of the vote, while incumbent Jair Bolsonaro received 49.2%.
WHATSAPP OUTAGE | WhatsApp services went back online after more than an hour-long global outage that left millions of WhatsApp users across the globe unable to send or receive messages.
The outage resulted in users not being able to send and receive text and video messages.
Hundreds of police and prison officials are on strike in South Africa, demanding higher pay.
With inflation at a 13-year high, they say their salaries are no longer enough to put food on the table.
The UN General Assembly high-level debates will commenced in about two hour's time under the theme, “A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges".
President Hage Geingob and delegation arrived in New York, USA for the 77th session of the UN General Assembly.
The high-level debates will commence on Tuesday under the theme, “A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges".
The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. This is his most optimistic outlook yet on the health crisis which has killed over 6 million people.
Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest reigning monarch and the nation's figure-head for seven decades has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. The statement said the queen died peacefully at Bal-moral this afternoon.
