The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a new $89.7 million emergency operation to feed 2.5 million small-scale farmers in Ethiopia.
The President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia this morning urged the international security force in Kosovo (KFOR) and the United Nations mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to exercise more control over the northern border area to prevent trespassing into his country's territory.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has moved more than 27,000 Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea from high-risk border camps to safer sites further inland, a spokesman for the organization said today in Geneva.
A helicopter crash in Kosovo which took the lives of two British officers does not appear to have been caused by any deliberate aggression, a United Nations spokesman announced today.
A committee of the United Nations General Assembly has postponed taking action on human resources - one of the main items on its agenda - because Member States failed to agree on contractual arrangements, recruitment, placement of personnel and administration of justice.
Speaking to a group of lawyers in Washington, DC, the head of the United Nations legal office has stressed that international law must be followed fully, with powerful States taking a lead role in contributing to this common effort.
A top United Nations official today urged the UN Disarmament Commission to focus its efforts on achieving the "vitally important" objective of global nuclear disarmament as soon as possible.
One aide worker was killed, another injured, in an incident involving a cluster bomb unit in Kosovo, the UN Mine Action Coordination Center in the province has reported.
The top United Nations official in Bosnia and Herzegovina today denounced the country's police for orchestrating the recent mob violence which broke out in response to international efforts to clean up corruption at the Herzegovacka Bank.
Recent assessment missions by the Office of the United Nations Coordinator for Afghanistan have documented an "alarmingly high" number of infant deaths due to disease in the northeastern part of the country, an area plagued by drought and conflict.