UN envoy calls for end to Gaza violence
The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process today appealed for an end to the violence in Gaza, calling the scale of the recent bloodshed alarming.
UN dispatches more aid as Kenya crisis continues
United Nations agencies are bolstering their assistance to Kenyans in the aftermath of the deadly wave of violence which erupted after last month’s disputed elections, claiming more than 500 lives and displacing hundreds of thousands.
Over 500,000 people displaced in DR Congo last year, says UN
More than a half a million people have been displaced in the past 12 months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mainly due to fighting between Government and rebel groups in the country’s volatile northeast, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.
Over 1 million Afghans face food shortage due to rising prices – UN agency
More than 1 million people in rural Afghanistan are at risk of food shortages due to an increase in prices for staples such as wheat flour and vegetable oil, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.
Nepal: credible Constituent Assembly poll within reach, says top UN envoy
The top United Nations official in Nepal has said that a credible Constituent Assembly election, which was postponed twice last year and is vital to the country’s peace process, is within reach.
UN population agency receives record donations for 2007
The United Nations agency that seeks to promote a life of health and equal opportunity worldwide by focusing on reproductive choice in the battle against poverty and under-development enjoyed another record year in contributions in 2007.
New UN envoy meets with DR Congo President, officials
Alan Doss, the new United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has met with the country’s President and other officials on issues of peace, security and development in the strife-torn nation.
Sudan: UN officials meet with Government on operations of Darfur peacekeepers
Officials of the new United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the Government of Sudan began negotiations in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, today to regulate deployment and operations of the force that is seeking to bring peace to the strife-torn Darfur region.
Mozambique: UN steps up relief efforts for tens of thousands of flood victims
The United Nations is stepping up relief operations in central Mozambique as a sharp rise in floodwaters along the Zambezi River in the past 48 hours uproots yet more people to join the tens of thousands already displaced.
Haitian diplomat elected to lead UN Economic and Social Council in 2008
Haitian Ambassador Léo Mérorès has been elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as its President for 2008, succeeding Dalius Cekuolis of Lithuania.