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The United Nations has succeeded in expanding the reach of its humanitarian operations in the Sudan, where ongoing clashes have displaced millions of people who require outside aid to survive, a senior UN official reported today.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy for Myanmar, Razali Ismail, will visit Yangon next week as part of a continuing effort to help facilitate the country’s national reconciliation process, a UN spokesperson said today in New York.

The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today welcomed the start in Jakarta of a human rights trial to prosecute 18 suspects accused of perpetrating a wave of violence during the territory's 1999 popular consultation.

Responding to allegations that witnesses, particularly those from Rwanda, have been mistreated, the United Nations war crimes tribunal has proposed forming a joint committee with the country’s government to investigate the charges.

Reacting to the news that a special Scottish court in the Netherlands had rejected an appeal by the Libyan national found guilty in the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed hope today that families of victims can at last "close this tragic chapter in their lives.”

Hours after the Angolan Government announced a new 15-point “Declaration” concerning the peace process, the United Nations chief envoy for the country welcomed it as a generous and inclusive move.

The United Nations Security Council today decided to send a high-level delegation to the Great Lakes region in early May in order to give new impetus to the flagging peace processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundi.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today left New York for Nicaragua, the first stop on a 10-day trip to Central America for meetings with leaders in the region.

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mark Malloch Brown, today began a two-day visit to Bolivia before heading to Mexico to participate in the upcoming International Conference on Financing for Development.

Some 7 million vitamin C tablets are needed urgently to fight a widespread outbreak of nutritional disease scurvy in Ghor Province in central Afghanistan, the United Nations World Health Organization announced today.