PSA: To help raise awareness about the crisis in the Sahel, musicians David Guetta and Usher just contributed this song to the UN's humanitarian efforts in Sahel.
One of the biggest global stories of the past few weeks that has gotten the least amount of media attention has been massive flooding in southern Africa.
The United Nations and partners have launched an exercise to poll the world's citizens on their top priorities, policies and views as world leaders shape a global development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015.
Wall Street Journal Kabul bureau chief Yaroslav Trofimov noticed something strange when he loaded Apple’s map of Afghanistan’s capital city on his new iPad today --the existence of a street named “Bad Monkey.”
Three years ago on Saturday the western hemisphere experienced the worst natural disaster in recent memory when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the heart of Haiti. Over 200,000 people were killed. A massive humanitarian disaster -- and a massive international response ensued.
Today's map comes via the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to highlight a series of small-scale natural disasters that have had a very big impact on lives of people in the Caucuses.
Want to know what people, places and things will be driving the global agenda in 2013? The UN Dispatch team has you covered. A 2013m listicle for the discerning global set.