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UNICEF Brings Critical Health & Education To Gaza
Monday, 4 April 2005, 1:00 pm | United Nations
More than 5,000 Palestinians in a completely isolated area in the Gaza Strip, nearly half of them children, are receiving critical health, sanitation and education supplies under a series of shipments by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) which ... More >>
Indonesia: UN Rushes Aid For 34,000 people
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:58 am | United Nations
At least 34,000 people have been left homeless by the earthquake that struck off northwest Indonesia on Monday, with the number expected to rise, and as relief supplies start arriving in large quantities medicine and medical equipment become high priorities ... More >>
Refugee Agency Has Repatriated 10,000 Liberians
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:57 am | United Nations
In a sign that Liberians believe that peace has returned after years of civil war, the United Nations refugee agency totalled the number of them who have gone home from neighbouring countries since October at more than 10,000 and the number of internally ... More >>
Theft Threatens Ability To Feed Millions In Dafur
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:56 am | United Nations
Shootings, attacks on drivers and thefts of contracted trucks carrying critically needed food aid in Sudan’s war-ravaged western Darfur region are seriously threatening the ability of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assist millions of ... More >>
Rehabilitation Of War-Torn Southern Sudan Begins
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:55 am | United Nations
As peace takes hold in southern Sudan after an agreement between the Government and rebels ended Africa’s longest-running civil war, United Nations agencies are redoubling efforts to prepare for the return of 4.5 million refugees and internally displaced ... More >>
Cholera Epidemic In Eastern Dr Of Congo
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:54 am | United Nations
A cholera epidemic in a displaced persons' camp in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could explode into a humanitarian catastrophe unless urgent measures are taken to halt growing insecurity and harassment by government troops that are ... More >>
Former Eastern Block Urged To Address AIDS Crisis
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:53 am | United Nations
UN Urges States Of Former Soviet Union To Respond At Once To Hiv/Aids Crisis More >>
Security Council Sends Darfur Cases To ICC
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:50 am | United Nations
The Security Council has decided to refer the situation in Sudan's troubled Darfur region ? where a United Nations inquiry found "serious violations of international human rights law" ? to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), ... More >>
Rwandan Force Intends To Return Home From Congo
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:49 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed a statement by Rwanda's main rebel group that it condemns the 1994 Rwanda genocide, renounces the use of force and will disarm, return peacefully to Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of ... More >>
UN Secretary-General Congratulates Wolfowitz
Friday, 1 April 2005, 4:27 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan congratulated Paul Wolfowitz of the United States on his election today as the president of the World Bank, saying he looked forward to working closely with him in the struggle against global poverty. More >>
Charge Letter Against Official Faulted In Probe
Friday, 1 April 2005, 4:25 pm | United Nations
The United Nations has issued a charge letter against the head of its internal watchdog office, based on adverse finding against him in the report of an independent committee probing alleged misconduct and mismanagement in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme for ... More >>
Outbreak Of Marburg Disease Sets Death Toll Record
Friday, 1 April 2005, 4:21 pm | United Nations
The death toll from Marburg virus in Angola has already surpassed the largest number of fatalities ever recorded during an outbreak of this rare but highly lethal haemorrhagic disease with epidemic potential, the United Nations health agency announced today. More >>
UN Envoy On Syrian Withdrawal Meets Sec. Rice
Friday, 1 April 2005, 4:20 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy seeking the withdrawal of some thousands of Syrian troops from Lebanon discussed his mission with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today on the eve of his return to the region. More >>
UN Envoy On Syrian Withdrawal To New Talks
Friday, 1 April 2005, 4:18 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy seeking the withdrawal of thousands of Syrian troops from Lebanon is set to leave for the region tonight with personal messages from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. More >>
Concern About GuineaBissau's Political Development
Friday, 1 April 2005, 3:44 pm | United Nations
Recognizing progress in Guinea-Bissau, the United Nations Security Council today called on those involved in the West African country's politics to commit themselves unequivocally to a peaceful electoral process and free, peaceful, transparent and ... More >>
Meeting On Landlocked Countries Adds Development
Friday, 1 April 2005, 2:08 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations official today pledged to take the outcomes of a high-level three-day conference on the problems of landlocked developing countries to an African ministerial meeting, as well as to the UN summit on development in September as a ... More >>
Attack On Aids Antiretroviral Therapy Wrong
Friday, 1 April 2005, 11:58 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies have condemned as wrong, misleading, irresponsible and dangerous a recent advertising campaign that both touts the benefits of vitamin therapy over antiretroviral therapy in treating HIV/AIDS and claims that antiretroviral therapy ... More >>
UN Shines Attention On Fighting Human Trafficking
Friday, 1 April 2005, 11:56 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies cast a spotlight today on fighting human trafficking at opposite ends of the Earth, warning that the root causes are not being adequately addressed in South Eastern Europe while praising government moves in Southeast Asia to forge ... More >>
UN Co-Sponsors First Afrasia Business Council
Friday, 1 April 2005, 12:04 am | United Nations
With African exports to Asia having increased markedly in a decade, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has helped to launch the AFRASIA Business Council (AABC) in Mauritius to help local entrepreneurs across the continent take greater advantage ... More >>
Nigeria May Delay Cameroon Border Pilot Project
Friday, 1 April 2005, 12:03 am | United Nations
The work of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission marking the boundary between the two West African countries could be delayed because Nigeria "regrettably" has decided to skip verification of the line in a village in the pilot project, the ... More >>
