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With many African countries registering their highest economic growth rate in four years, Asian countries can promote trade with and investment in Africa by helping governments there strengthen reforms, encouraging public-private partnerships and using their successes to improve the continent’s image, according to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Turkmenistan, with a population of 4.8 million, has become the fourth country in the world to ensure that all salt used in cooking is iodized, thereby heading off likely brain damage, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today.

Distressed by a series of children’s deaths during the ongoing Israeli operations in the occupied Palestinian territory, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the Government of Israel to take steps to avoid civilian casualties.

Top United Nations officials today denounced a suicide attack of a market in Israel, which killed at least three people and wounded many more.

A French civilian member of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been accused of child molestation and is being held by French justice officials, according to a joint United Nations and French statement.

The United Nations mission chief today said relative calm has returned to Liberia after "robust" peacekeeping and local police patrols responded to incidents and enforced the curfew countering the violence that started last Thursday in the West African country.

The United Nations envoy for Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, met today in Baghdad with interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi for talks on the situation in the country and the UN role in helping it through the transitional process.

Some relief agencies have been forced to scale back aid operations and relocate staff due to security incidents in the three Darfur states, the United Nations mission in Sudan said today.

The United Nations environment agency today released a new survey that finds most of the world's top-ranking corporations failing to inform investors about the impact of environmental and social issues on their business opportunities.

Thousands left homeless after severe rains recently struck the oldest camp housing internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda are now battling a cholera outbreak, the United Nations relief coordination office said today.