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Deadly bomb attack on Shia mosque in southern Pakistan
Sunday, 1 February 2015, 11:46 am | UN News
30 January 2015 – Condemning the deadly bombing today of a Shia mosque in Sindh province in Pakistan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored this “vicious targeting of people on account of their religious affiliation,” and ... More >>
UN refugee agency commends Greece on asylum reforms
Sunday, 1 February 2015, 11:37 am | UN News
30 January 2015 – Greece has made progress in reforming its asylum system despite challenging economic and political circumstances, the UN refugee agency ( UNHCR ) confirmed today, adding nonetheless that much more needed to be done to accommodate ... More >>
Violence sends desperate Nigerians fleeing to Cameroon
Sunday, 1 February 2015, 11:17 am | UN News
30 January 2015 – The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) is appealing for more funds to help address the recent exodus of refugees into Cameroon from Nigeria, saying that a risk in attacks on both sides of that border has made it increasingly ... More >>
Malawi desperately needs scale-up in international aid
Sunday, 1 February 2015, 11:14 am | UN News
30 January 2015 – The international community must rapidly respond to the devastating flooding affecting Malawi with critical humanitarian aid and appropriate funding, a group of United Nations human rights experts affirmed today, warning that the African ... More >>
South Sudan: UN warns surge in Sudanese refugees
Sunday, 1 February 2015, 11:13 am | UN News
30 January 2015 – Sudanese refugees continue to pour into South Sudan as they flee aerial bombardments and ground attacks in the war-torn Nuba Mountains in Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency said today, as it warned that many of the settlement ... More >>
Iraq: Government investigation into sectarian massacre
Saturday, 31 January 2015, 12:37 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq ( UNAMI ) has welcomed the Government’s decision to conduct a full investigation into the alleged sectarian killing of dozens of civilians by armed groups in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province. More >>
Haiti: Elections Loom
Saturday, 31 January 2015, 12:35 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – Members of the Security Council heard briefings today from the co-leads of a trip taken by the body to Haiti, where they saw first-hand the critical work being done by the United Nations Mission there in support of a better future ... More >>
Mali: Ban deplores violent protests against Mission compound
Saturday, 31 January 2015, 12:33 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the deadly protests against a United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali ( MINUSMA ) compound in the northern city of Gao, which left several people dead and a number of others injured. More >>
UNICEF warns launching record $3 billion appeal
Saturday, 31 January 2015, 12:32 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – The United Nations today launched its biggest ever humanitarian appeal to fund globe-spanning responses to emergencies and threats “stalking children in ways never before seen” and putting them in extraordinary danger of violence, ... More >>
DR Congo: Security Council renews sanctions
Saturday, 31 January 2015, 12:25 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today renewed its sanctions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to prevent the supply, sale or transfer of arms, training, and financing, to armed groups. More >>
6-month extension for UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus
Friday, 30 January 2015, 1:00 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – The Security Council today extended the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) – one of the longest running UN missions still in operation – until 31 July 2015, noting that despite some progress made in negotiations between ... More >>
Destruction of villages, displacement of thousands in Darfur
Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:59 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the reported aerial bombardment and destruction of villages in the Golo locality of Central Darfur, and expressed concern over the worsening security situation, which ... More >>
Ebola cases reaching record low
Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:35 pm | UN News
Highly contaminated waste is removed from an Ebola Treatment Unit and carried with caution to a disposal area, where it will be fed into an incinerator that burns it into ashes. Photo: WHO/R. Sørensen More >>
UN political talks possibly moved to Libya
Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:22 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – Participants in the United Nations-facilitated Libyan political dialogue in discussions in Geneva this week have agreed “on the principle” of convening future dialogue sessions in Libya, provided that logistical and security ... More >>
UNESCO chief denounces killing of journalists in South Sudan
Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:20 pm | UN News
29 January 2015 – The head of the United Nations agency mandated to defend freedom of expression and press freedom today denounced the killing of five journalists in South Sudan and an Iraqi broadcaster, who was killed while covering fighting in the ... More >>
Terrorist attack on hotel in Libyan capital
Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:08 pm | UN News
27 January 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today condemned in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist attack against the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, and underlined the need to bring the perpetrators, financiers and sponsors of such ... More >>
Mali: UN to investigate deadly protests against compound
Friday, 30 January 2015, 11:44 am | UN News
28 January 2015 – The United Nations Mission in Mali ( MINUSMA ) has launched an investigation into the events surrounding a violent protest in the northern city of Gao yesterday during which several people were reportedly killed and a number ... More >>
El Salvador’s pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage
Friday, 30 January 2015, 11:37 am | UN News
El Salvador’s pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage should pave way for review of similar sentences – UN experts More >>
UN ‘blue helmet’ killed near Lebanon-Israel cross-fire
Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:29 am | UN News
28 January 2015 – A United Nations peacekeeper with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) was killed today near the border with Israel but the precise cause of death is as yet undetermined and remains the subject of investigation, according ... More >>
Middle East envoy Serry ‘outraged’ by attack on UN Gaza
Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:27 am | UN News
28 January 2015 – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process, Robert Serry, has expressed outrage by the assault on the UN premises in Gaza this morning. More >>
