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“Path is open” to peaceful denuclearization of Korean Peninsula: UN chief

21 April 2018
Peace and Security

Following the leader of North Korea’s announcement that nuclear and missile tests are to end, the UN chief António Guterres said on Saturday that the “path is open for the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula”.

During the lean season, families in Wurotorobe, Burkina Faso, struggle to have at least one meal per day, but often they only calm the worst hunger. The poor diet makes small children extremely vulnerable to epidemics and disease.
OCHA/Ivo Brandau (file photo)

Health experts at UN meeting press for action to address ‘double burden’ of malnutrition in Africa

20 April 2018
Health

Africa’s attempts to achieve health for all by 2030 could be threatened unless the continent address the twin challenges of undernutrition and obesity, experts attending a United Nations meeting in Nairobi this week have warned.

OCHA/Ivo Brandau

Do not send refugees back to the violence they fled from, UN agency urges Cameroon

20 April 2018
Migrants and Refugees

Despite warnings, Nigerian refugees and asylum-seekers who fled Boko Haram violence continue to be returned from Cameroon, the United Nations refugee agency has said, underscoring the need to accord international protection to those in need.

UN Photo/Manuel Elias

‘Save peace while it lasts,’ says General Assembly President, ahead of UN summit on sustaining peace

20 April 2018
Peace and Security

The world needs a new approach to peace, which is why the United Nations General Assembly will hold a major meeting next week to discuss ways to foster peace by focusing on conflict prevention, mediation, dialogue and diplomacy, the 193-member body’s President has said.

FAO/Ezequiel Becerra

A bio-based, reuse economy can feed the world and save the planet – UN agency

20 April 2018
Economic Development

Transforming pineapple skins into product packaging or using potato peels for fuel may sound far-fetched, but such innovations are gaining traction as it becomes clear that an economy based on cultivation and use of biomass can help tackle pollution and climate change, the United Nations agriculture agency said on Friday.

UN Photo/Amin Ismail

INTERVIEW: ‘I want to contribute to the service of humanity,’ says first-time UN peacekeeper from Indonesia

20 April 2018
Peace and Security

It is Hernawan Rizky Yudhantoro’s first deployment with an international peacekeeping operation. The Indonesian police officer serves with the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), a region of Sudan where conflict has left some 2.7 million people displaced and over 2 million in need of humanitarian assistance.

UN Photo/Violaine Martin (file)

UN chief condemns abduction and killing of media workers near Ecuador-Colombia border

20 April 2018
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the kidnapping and killing of three media workers near the border between Ecuador and Colombia, confirmed on 13 April, as well as the subsequent kidnapping of two other Ecuadorian nationals.

UNMISS

‘Give peace a chance; give children a chance,’ senior UN peacekeeping official says visiting South Sudan

20 April 2018
Peace and Security

All stakeholders in South Sudan must “engage genuinely and constructively in finding a political solution” to the conflict there, a senior United Nations peacekeeping official said at the end of her four-day visit.

UNICEF/Sujan

Early rains expose risks for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, but worst ‘yet to come,’ warns UN agency

20 April 2018
Humanitarian Aid

The arrival of pre-monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh has revealed an alarming level of risks for Rohingya refugees, United Nations humanitarian agencies said on Friday, warning that they do not  have the funds needed to protect hundreds of thousands of desperate people once the rainy season begins in earnest.

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Liberia: Security Council seeks study of role played by UN mission in conflict resolution, political mediation

19 April 2018
Peace and Security

Commending the remarkable achievements made by the people and Government of Liberia to consolidate lasting peace and stability in the wake of a 1999-2003 civil war, the Security Council on Thursday asked the United Nations Secretary-General to conduct a study of the role played by its peacekeeping mission in resolving conflicts and other challenges the country has faced.