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UN: Alleged Mass Rape in North Darfur
Friday, 21 November 2014, 10:27 am | UN News
UNAMID commanders from Rwanda and Ethiopia exhange duties in Tabit, North Darfur, to escort a convoy of World Food Programme (WFP) trucks travelling from El Fasher to Shangil Tobaya. Photo: UNAMID/Albert González Farran More >>
Libya: UN Mission Brokers 12-Hour Humanitarian Truce
Thursday, 20 November 2014, 12:33 pm | UN News
19 November 2014 – The head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya ( UNSMIL ) announced today that all parties to the conflict in Benghazi have agreed to an unconditional humanitarian truce to evacuate civilians and retrieve the bodies of ... More >>
UN strongly condemns attack on Jerusalem synagogue
Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 3:51 pm | UN News
18 November 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned today’s attack on a synagogue in West Jerusalem that claimed four lives and injured several persons, calling for political leadership and courage on both sides to address ... More >>
DR Congo: UN Warns of Humanitarian ‘Catastrophe’
Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 3:45 pm | UN News
DR Congo: UN Warns of Humanitarian ‘Catastrophe’ as Hundreds of Thousands Flee Violence in Katanga More >>
Burkina Faso: Ban Welcomes Appointment of Interim President
Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 3:39 pm | UN News
17 November 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the people of Burkina Faso on the signing of the Charter of the Transition and on the appointment of former foreign minister Michel Kafando as Transitional President. More >>
UN health agency under way to step up Ebola response in Mali
Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 3:22 pm | UN News
Police turned away patients at the Clinique Pasteur in Bamako, Mali, after the hospital was put under quarantine for the Ebola virus. Photo: IRIN/Katarina Höije More >>
Ebola: DR Congo declares end to outbreak
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 1:18 pm | UN News
Ebola: DR Congo declares end to outbreak, as top footballers join global fight against virus More >>
INTERPOL operation targets environmental fugitives
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 1:07 pm | UN News
CITES is supporting INTERPOL’s Operation ‘INFRA-Terra’ (International Fugitive Round Up and Arrest), targeting nine fugitives wanted for environmental crime, in particular wildlife crime. Credit: INTERPOL/CITES More >>
Iraq: UN convoy hit by explosion in Baghdad
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 12:59 pm | UN News
17 November 2014 – A United Nations convoy of three vehicles proceeding from the Baghdad International Airport to the International Zone was hit with at least one explosion this morning, the Organization’s assistance mission in the country reported ... More >>
Darfur rape allegations: Ban urges unfettered access to town
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 12:57 pm | UN News
An unexploded bomb on the way to Tabit from Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur. Photo: UNAMID/Albert González Farran More >>
Israeli, Palestinian Leaders to Make ‘Difficult Compromises’
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 12:48 pm | UN News
Assistant Secretary-General ad interim for Political Affairs, Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. UN Photo/Yubi Hoffmann More >>
Somalia: UN envoy calls for political stability
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 12:11 pm | UN News
17 November 2014 – The top United Nations official in Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has met with country leaders in Mogadishu to discuss the ongoing political crisis days ahead of the first high-level meeting held in Copenhagen to review the embattled ... More >>
UN Launches ‘Pocketbook’ on Nutrition
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 12:08 pm | UN News
17 November 2014 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) has today published a comprehensive pocketbook of nutrition-related data covering all regions of the world ahead of the Second International Conference on Nutrition ... More >>
Signs of New Ebola Cases in Liberia
Monday, 17 November 2014, 3:22 pm | UN News
Amid Signs of New Ebola Cases, UN Health Official Tells Liberians ‘You Must Hunt the Virus’ More >>
UN Report: Civilians inside ISIL-controlled Syria
Monday, 17 November 2014, 2:57 pm | UN News
14 November 2014 – Shocking accounts of the use of terror by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to subjugate Syrians living under its control were revealed by United Nations human rights investigators today who said the group’s ... More >>
Mexico: ‘Deep concerns’ over case of missing students
Monday, 17 November 2014, 2:54 pm | UN News
14 November 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Office ( OHCHR ) today cautioned against jumping to conclusions regarding the “complex and ongoing” investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, amid reports that a number badly ... More >>
Investigation into alleged mass rape in North Darfur town
Monday, 17 November 2014, 2:52 pm | UN News
14 November 2014 – Allegations of the mass rape of 200 women and girls in a town in North Darfur continue raise concerns in the war-torn Sudanese region as the African Union-United Nations hybrid mission there presses ahead with its efforts “to shed ... More >>
UN Agency Cuts Food Rations for Refugees in Kenya
Monday, 17 November 2014, 2:46 pm | UN News
Lacking Funds, UN Agency Turns to ‘Last Resort,’ Cuts Food Rations for Refugees in Kenya More >>
UN mission condemns bombings in Libya
Monday, 17 November 2014, 2:42 pm | UN News
13 November 2014 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya ( UNSMIL ) has strongly condemned the rising violence in eastern and western Libya, including the bombings this morning in Tripoli of the embassies of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, as ... More >>
‘Haiti Cannot Wait 40 Years’ to Eliminate Cholera
Monday, 17 November 2014, 2:37 pm | UN News
The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has partnered with Haitian Agencies to combat cholera by providing clean water. UN Photo/Logan Abassi More >>
