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Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Policemen - UN
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 11:23 am | United Nations
The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has spoken out about today’s attack at a police station in the southern province of Uruzgan which reportedly killed at least 20 officers. Many others were also wounded in the suicide bombing which took ... More >>
Call For Military Halt In Darfur
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 11:09 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the Government of Sudan and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to cease all military activities in South Darfur, warning of the impact on local civilians of renewed fighting between the two sides. More >>
UN: Fight Against SEA Drug Trade Fragile
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:56 am | United Nations
As the United Nations anti-drug agency reports that the South-East Asian region – once notorious as heroin’s Golden Triangle – has dramatically slashed its opium production, its top official warned today that without serious development assistance ... More >>
Reconciliation Priority For New Somali President
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:15 am | United Nations
New York, Feb 1 2009 3:10PM United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged newly elected President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia to reach out to all people and parties in the strife-ridden country. More >>
Improved Infrastructure Key In Africa
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 9:54 am | United Nations
Addressing an African Union (AU) summit focused on enhancement of the continent’s poor infrastructure, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said today that public works were the cornerstone to economic and social progress. More >>
Senior UN Official Appeals To Militia In Darfur
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 9:49 am | United Nations
The chief of the joint United Nations-African Union effort to bring peace to Darfur today urged all armed forces in the region to put down their weapons and engage in peace negotiations. More >>
UN: Imprisonment For Former Rwandan Leader
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 9:49 am | United Nations
The Appeals Chamber of the United Nations tribunal dealing with the 1994 Rwandan genocide today confirmed the life sentence imposed on a former provincial leader convicted for his role in the killings. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ... More >>
UN-Backed Trial of Lyberia's Taylor: Final Witness
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 9:39 am | United Nations
The prosecution has presented its 91st and final witness in the United Nations-backed trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on charges of war crimes committed in the civil war in Sierra Leone, completing a graphic litany of alleged atrocities ... More >>
UN Calls For Push To End Opium Production
Monday, 2 February 2009, 8:22 am | United Nations
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is set to shrink this year, which could deal a major blow to the illicit drug industry, the top United Nations official to the war-torn country said today. More >>
Safe Passage For Trapped Civilians Urged
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 3:07 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Government and rebels in Sri Lanka to do everything in their power to effectuate the safe passage that has been promised for some 250,000 civilians trapped in the area of intense fighting ... More >>
Evictions Leave Thousands Homeless In Cambodia
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 3:03 pm | United Nations
The forced evictions of tens of thousands of Cambodia’s poor constitute a “grave breach” of human rights, a United Nations independent expert said today, calling for damages to be paid for lost homes and the provision of alternative housing. More >>
Chad Sees New Influx Of Refugees
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:59 pm | United Nations
More than 4,500 refugees from the northern Central African Republic (CAR), fearing attacks from rebel groups and fighting between Government forces, have recently arrived in south-eastern Chad, the United Nations refugee agency said today. More >>
$8 Million boost To Fight Cholera In Zimbabwe
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:54 pm | United Nations
With the deadly cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe claiming over 3,000 lives and infecting a staggering 60,000 people, the United Nations announced today that it is releasing close to $8 million from its emergency fund to help fight the spread of the disease. More >>
Displaced Beginning To Return To Somali Capital
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:51 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency said today there are signs that, for the first time in two years, Somalis displaced by fighting in Mogadishu are beginning to return to their devastated neighbourhoods, but warned that the situation in the capital ... More >>
UN Envoy To Somalia Praises 'Transparent' Election
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:48 pm | United Nations
After a long night of voting the newly expanded Somali parliament elected opposition leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as the new president of the Horn of Africa nation, as the United Nations envoy to the country applauded the "open and transparent" ... More >>
Ban Urges Teachers To Foster Global Citizen
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:44 pm | United Nations
Teachers have a crucial role to play in fostering the global citizen of tomorrow who transcends national borders to tackle the problems of the world at large, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. More >>
Top UN Envoy To Iraq Warns Of Tough Challenges
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:41 pm | United Nations
As Iraqis went to the polls in provincial elections today, the top United Nations envoy to the country warned of tough challenges ahead, including the need to heal ethnic divisions and for national reconciliation, that could jeopardize recent progress. More >>
Pact To Fight Piracy Off Somali Coast
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 2:38 pm | United Nations
Indian Ocean and Red Sea countries have pledged to cooperate in seizing, investigating and prosecuting pirates off the coast of war-ravaged Somalia in a stepped-up campaign to curb a scourge that has wrought havoc with international shipping, including United ... More >>
Ban Calls For ‘Responsibility To Protect’
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has outlined in a new report a three-pronged approach to implement the ‘responsibility to protect,’ a doctrine that holds States responsible for shielding their own populations from genocide and other major human rights abuses ... More >>
Pushing Gender Equality To Fore In Rwanda
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:28 pm | United Nations
Rwanda has appointed three officials to a new government body charged with putting gender equality is at the forefront of Government planning and ensuring that necessary data is readily available to inform policy decisions, the United Nations Development ... More >>
