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Joint Raid Captures Haitian Gang Leader
Friday, 6 April 2007, 3:08 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers and Haitian National Police (HNP) officers today captured a notorious gang leader during an early morning raid in the capital, Port-au-Prince, part of their joint efforts to crack down on violent crime in the impoverished Caribbean ... More >>
Serb Paramilitaries Trial Transfered
Friday, 6 April 2007, 3:07 pm | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced today that it is referring the case of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader and his cousin who are accused of burning to death scores of Muslim women, children and elderly ... More >>
On UNICEF-Backed Palestinian Child’s Day
Friday, 6 April 2007, 3:05 pm | United Nations
To mark United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)-backed Palestinian Child’s Day, hundreds of children gathered today in Gaza and Ramallah to speak out against violence, the culmination of months of youth-led campaigns calling for an end to the daily ... More >>
Solomons at Risk of Malaria Outbreak
Friday, 6 April 2007, 3:04 pm | United Nations
The Solomon Islands faces potentially serious health problems in the wake of Monday’s deadly tsunami, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned today, with diarrhoea outbreaks already being reported in camps for the displaced and a surge expected ... More >>
UN Welcomes Donation from EU to Bhutan
Friday, 6 April 2007, 3:02 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today hailed a €1.5 million donation from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) to feed over 108,000 Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal who are unable to work outside the camps ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Food Agency Rushes Suppl
Friday, 6 April 2007, 3:00 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP) today stepped up assistance to victims of devastating spring floods in Afghanistan, sending 1,000 tonnes of emergency rations to feed 60,000 people for 30 days, but the agency is concerned about those affected ... More >>
HIV Experts Seek Wider Condom Use
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:22 am | United Nations
Experts meeting in Beijing today at a United Nations-backed regional workshop on stopping the spread of HIV called for the promotion of increased condom use between sex workers and their clients. More >>
Internatl Force in CA Republic Possible
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:06 am | United Nations
A multi-dimensional international force could be deployed to the troubled northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR) without the approval of neighbouring Chad, which is beset by its own civil strife, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official ... More >>
Haiti: Boosting, Diversifing Agricultre
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:05 am | United Nations
A United Nations-backed project is helping local communities in north-eastern Haiti to increase and diversify their agricultural production and reducing poverty in the process, officials involved in the initiative have said. More >>
S Africa: Lives Threatened by Cyclone
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:04 am | United Nations
Southern African communities, local authorities and humanitarian partners are finding their resources stretched to the limit with the early arrival of the rainy season and relentless precipitation as well as an unprecedented series of cyclones and tropical ... More >>
Importance of Timor-Leste Election
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:03 am | United Nations
Next week’s landmark presidential election in Timor-Leste, the first in the tiny nation since gaining independence from Indonesia in 2002, is important not only for peace in the country but also for longer-term stability, senior United Nations officials ... More >>
Somalia: Caution Against Forced Disarmament
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 12:21 am | United Nations
Welcoming plans to convene a national reconciliation congress for war-ravaged Somalia, the senior United Nations envoy to the country has cautioned against forced disarmament to facilitate holding the meeting in the capital, Mogadishu. More >>
Solomon Islands: UN Assessment Team Deployed
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 5:49 pm | United Nations
A six-member United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team has been dispatched to the Solomon Islands, a day after the Pacific country was struck by a deadly tsunami caused by a powerful underwater earthquake. More >>
Madagar: UN Readies Aid For Hundreds Of Thousands
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:45 pm | United Nations
With some 450,000 people in Madagascar already in urgently need of shelter, food, drinking water, medication and school supplies due to five cyclones this season, and a sixth one on the way, United Nations agencies have set up three operational ... More >>
UN Probe Seeks Further Information On Attack
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:43 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-led fact-finding team is seeking more information on last month’s attack on a Government position in north-west Georgia where fighting between Government and Abkhaz separatist forces 14 years ago drove nearly 300,000 people from their ... More >>
El Niño At An End And Reverse La Niña
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:42 pm | United Nations
The most recent El Niño, the periodic weather pattern that can have repercussions around the world from torrential rains and floods in the Americas and Africa to droughts and brush fires in Australia and Asia, has now ended and a transition to its mirror ... More >>
School Enrolment Rates Double In Southern Sudan
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:38 pm | United Nations
The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running civil war two years ago, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF , which is backing a local campaign to provide hundreds ... More >>
More ‘Pro-Active’ Policies Needed To Spur Growth
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:36 pm | United Nations
To spur the growth necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – a set of targets to slash a host of social ills, including extreme poverty, by 2015 – African countries must pursue more ‘pro-active’ policies to develop of a ... More >>
World Cereal Production On Track For Record Crop
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:35 pm | United Nations
World cereal production this year is forecast to increase 4.3 per cent to a record 2.082 billion tonnes, but despite improved food supplies in many needy countries, 33 nations are in a critical situation, mostly due to conflict and adverse weather, ... More >>
Tribunal Reduces Jail Sentence For Former Bosnian
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:35 pm | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today slightly reduced the sentence of a former leading Bosnian Serb politician jailed over his role in the ethnic cleansing that took place during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, but upheld ... More >>
