The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched the Africa Hunger Alert campaign aimed at drawing attention to the unprecedented hunger crisis on the continent.
The senior United Nations envoy in Afghanistan is travelling to Oslo for the start tomorrow of a pledging conference that aims to raise funds for ongoing humanitarian priorities as well as recovery and reconstruction efforts in the country.
With Angola now enjoying "real prospects for lasting peace" following nearly three decades of war, the Government and the international community must take steps to consolidate progress and foster reconstruction, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report to the Security Council.
Rebel and government forces in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia and Somalia are among those named in a new report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that lists conflict areas where children are used as soldiers.
Exercising power granted by the Security Council resolution which paved the way for resumed weapons inspections in Iraq, the United Nations has asked Baghdad for a list of scientists involved in the country's arms programme.
The Governments of Iran and Iraq have informed the United Nations of a new border crossing point between the two countries that will be used as a trade route for the delivery of humanitarian relief under the world body's "oil-for-food" programme.
Amid a growing consensus on the need for a two-State solution to the Middle East conflict, bloodshed and economic collapse are intensifying in the region, Terje Roed-Larsen, the senior United Nations envoy in the region, told the Security Council today, urging international efforts to reconcile plans with reality.
Judges serving on a "mixed court" set up to try war crimes in Sierra Leone have elected from among themselves two to preside over key chambers, the United Nations and the Freetown Government announced today.
In a bid to eradicate polio from Afghanistan, United Nations agencies today teamed up with the country's health officials to launch a new round of national immunization days.