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Deadly Indonesia Floods Affect Over 200,000
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 1:49 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today sent in almost $1 million in emergency aid, including hygiene kits, rehydration sachets and tarpaulin sheets, to the Indonesian province of Aceh, where deadly floods have already killed almost ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan: UN Sends Aid For Quake Victims
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 9:05 am | United Nations
The United Nations is sending $10,000 to earthquake-hit Kyrgyzstan in response to an appeal by the Government for international assistance to provide food, heating equipment, clothing, medicines and construction materials to help victims of the ... More >>
Somalia: Aid Suspended As Fighting Intensifies
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 9:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended much of its delivery of aid by air in Somalia due to increased fighting, including its first airdrops in eight years, and withdrawn its last international staff from a country where it ... More >>
Security For Palestinians In Baghdad Worsens
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:59 am | United Nations
Security for predominantly Sunni Palestinians in Baghdad has deteriorated over the past week amid increasing fears of attack as members of the Mahdi army Shiite militia are reported to be taking over apartments in a mainly Shia area, the United Nations ... More >>
Chad: UNICEF Appeals For $9 Million In Vital Aid
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:55 am | United Nations
Chad: UNICEF Appeals For $9 Million In Vital Aid For 350,000 Refugees, Displaced People More >>
Ethiopia: UN Backs Mass Measles Immunization
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:54 am | United Nations
A mass United Nations-backed measles immunization campaign is currently underway in Ethiopia, targeting more than 5.8 million children aged under the age of 5 following growing fears earlier this year over the rise in new cases of the disease. More >>
Somalia Fighting Flares
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 3:35 pm | United Nations
With conflict in Somalia now involving Ethiopian air strikes and hundreds of wounded, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today telephoned Ethiopia’s Prime Minster and Kenya’s leader to try and halt the escalating violence, while the UN envoy ... More >>
Annan ‘deeply concerned’ at Libyan death sentences
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 2:49 pm | United Nations
22 December 2006 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his deep concern at the death sentence imposed by a Libyan court on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV/AIDS to ... More >>
Pipeline Blast In Nigeria - UN Offers Help
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 11:19 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reacted with sadness to the news of a fuel pipeline explosion that killed hundreds of people in Nigeria, and pledged the world body’s help in efforts to prevent other disasters from occurring in West ... More >>
DPR Korea: UN Human Rights Expert Meets Refugees
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 8:45 am | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert on the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has met refugees from the troubled country and visited a facility that helps them acclimatize to life in the Republic of Korea. More >>
UN: Jolie Hands Out Xmas Gifts To Refugees
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 8:31 am | United Nations
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and fellow actor Brad Pitt spent Christmas in Costa Rica More >>
Security Council Imposes Sanctions On Iran
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 8:04 am | United Nations
Capping months of intensive negotiations, the United Nations Security Council today unanimously decided to impose a set of sanctions against Iran in response to its uranium-enrichment activities, which Tehran says are for peaceful purposes but which ... More >>
UN: Prevent Violations Against Journalists
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 7:30 am | United Nations
Reaffirming the civilian status of journalists, the United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution urging warring parties to prevent abuses against them and to respect their professional independence and rights. More >>
UN Sends $2 Million To Flood-Hit Aceh Region
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 7:24 am | United Nations
In response to flash floods that swept over the province of Aceh in Indonesia earlier this month, the United Nations has allocated an initial $2 million grant from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the relief effort in the area, where an ... More >>
UN Releases Rules On Oil-For-Food Inquiry
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:42 pm | United Nations
To facilitate continuing investigations by Member States into the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) that examined the scandal-ridden Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme, the United Nations today released rules regarding the management, preservation ... More >>
Departing Annan Lauds Security Council
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:41 pm | United Nations
Although some international crises continue to rage, many others have been peacefully resolved, show signs of ending or were prevented from even taking place thanks to the efforts of the Security Council, departing Secretary-General Kofi Annan told ... More >>
Darfur: Hope Remains Deployment Of Hybrid UN Force
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:40 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he was hopeful Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir would indicate as early as tomorrow that he has agreed to a full ceasefire in the war-torn Darfur region and to the eventual deployment of a hybrid force of United ... More >>
‘Quartet’ Back Continued Aid To Palestinians
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Members of the diplomatic ‘Quartet’ on the Middle East – the United Nations, the United States, the Russian Federation and the European Union (EU) – today endorsed the continuation of a stop-gap measure for providing aid directly to the Palestinian ... More >>
Upsurge In Somali Fighting Prompts Concern
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:35 pm | United Nations
The Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan today each voiced grave concern at the recent intensified fighting in Somalia between the strife-torn country’s Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) and the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). More >>
Food Shortages In DPR Korea Spark Warning
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:33 pm | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies today expressed concern about worsening food shortages in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), where so many millions of people are already undernourished that at least one in three children are stunted ... More >>
