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UN Warns Of Locust Threat
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Locust numbers have continued to increase along the northern coast of Eritrea and adjacent coastal areas of Sudan and other Red Sea and Gulf of Aden countries could face important infestations of the crop-devouring insects this winter due to unusually ... More >>
UN Envoy Urges Debt Relief
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:34 pm | United Nations
Repaying its almost $4 billion in loans will impede Liberia’s efforts to consolidate democracy and promote development, the United Nations envoy for the world’s poorest countries said today, calling for all of the impoverished West African nation’s ... More >>
UN Completes First Stage Of Maoist Registration
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:31 pm | United Nations
The United Nations mission in Nepal, sent over to assist with last year’s landmark peace deal, recently completed the first stage of registering Maoist arms and fighters, the UN envoy to the Himalayan country said today, as he stressed the importance of ... More >>
Decolonization Is An ‘Unfinished’ Story
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:27 pm | United Nations
The United Nations’ involvement with the decolonization movement is a “success story, albeit an unfinished one,” Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today at the world body’s Headquarters in New York. More >>
SG to Meet With AU Chief on Darfur
Friday, 23 February 2007, 5:24 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said he will soon meet with the head of the African Union to discuss the continuing suffering in Sudan’s devastated Darfur region, as the United Nations warned that almost 50,000 more people were forced to flee violence ... More >>
UNESCO Honours Five Women Scientists
Friday, 23 February 2007, 4:32 pm | United Nations
Five outstanding women scientists received major awards today from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the cosmetics company L’Oréal for their efforts in a field dominated by men. More >>
Audio: Today's News Update From The United Nations
Friday, 23 February 2007, 4:10 pm | United Nations
Iran Continuing Enrichment-Related Activities: IAEA - Quartet Hopes for Continued Dialogue Between Israeli/Palestinian Leaders - Britain Calls for Negotiations to Stop Production of Nuclear Bomb-Making Materials - UN Warns of Food Insecurity Among ... More >>
Future of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
Friday, 23 February 2007, 3:44 pm | United Nations
Meeting with Pakistani Government officials and Afghan refugees in a four-day visit to the region this week, a senior United Nations refugee agency official said that she is carefully reviewing plans for voluntary repatriation and refugee camp closures. More >>
Security Council Extends Timor Mission
Friday, 23 February 2007, 3:44 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today extended the United Nations mission in impoverished Timor-Leste for another year until February 2008, while adding up to 140 extra police officers to help counter the increasing violence as the tiny nation gears up for this year’s ... More >>
Sierra Leone: War Crime Suspect's Death
Friday, 23 February 2007, 2:51 pm | United Nations
The death of a former militia leader suspected of war crimes in Sierra Leone has deprived the West African country’s people of their right to see justice done, the prosecutor of a United Nations-backed court there said today, while pledging ... More >>
Ban ‘Concerned’ by Iran Enrichment
Friday, 23 February 2007, 2:34 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he was “deeply concerned” that Iran had not met the Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, stressing that the country’s nuclear programme had great implications for peace, ... More >>
Timor-Leste: Appeal to Back Peacekeeping
Friday, 23 February 2007, 1:59 pm | United Nations
Responding to increasing violence in the Timor-Leste capital of Dili, the United Nations envoy to the impoverished country today urged the population to fully support the security efforts of the UN and local police, as well as those of the International ... More >>
Afghanistan: Fighting in Sth Hampers Aid
Friday, 23 February 2007, 1:58 pm | United Nations
Security concerns and moving battle fronts in southern Afghanistan are severely limiting efforts to aid the local population in the battle-scarred region, a senior United Nations humanitarian official said today. More >>
New Coconut Water Preservation Process
Friday, 23 February 2007, 1:57 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking to boost sales of bottled coconut water by small farmers with a simple cold preservation process that protects the natural taste for up to three weeks while avoiding the loss of ... More >>
Ace Goal Scorers Shoot Against Poverty
Friday, 23 February 2007, 1:57 pm | United Nations
Football legends Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane are inviting some of the world’s top players to join them in an all-star line-up for a match against poverty next month as part of a push to raise awareness of and funds for the United Nations Millennium ... More >>
Audio: Today's News Update From The United Nations
Friday, 23 February 2007, 6:39 am | United Nations
UN Security Council Gives Green Light for African Union Mission in Somalia - Somalis Have a Choice for Reconciliation: France - UN Report Warns of Risks in Deploying UN Force in Eastern Chad - Security Council Condemns Bombing of Indian Train Bound ... More >>
Congo: Child Soldiers Being Recruited Into Brigade
Friday, 23 February 2007, 6:35 am | United Nations
Child soldiers being demobilized from former rebel groups in an eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being pressured to conceal their age and civil status so that they can be enrolled in newly integrated army units, the United ... More >>
Philippines Forces Behind Extrajudicial Killings
Friday, 23 February 2007, 6:33 am | United Nations
With a significant number of extrajudicial killings “convincingly attributed” to its armed forces, a culture of virtual impunity and “the rampant problem of witness vulnerability,” the Philippines’ Government faces the “enduring and ... More >>
Poverty Threatens Palestinian Families
Friday, 23 February 2007, 6:29 am | United Nations
Rising unemployment, poverty and “economic suffocation” in the occupied Palestinian territory are posing acute challenges to food security, leaving many families entirely dependent on outside aid as well as threatening vital sectors of the Palestinian ... More >>
Quartet Seeks Renewed Middle-East Dialogue
Friday, 23 February 2007, 6:25 am | United Nations
Welcoming recent signs of progress between Israelis and Palestinians on improving the situation in the Middle East, the high-level diplomatic Quartet, which includes the United Nations, today reaffirmed its determination to promote dialogue between ... More >>
