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The United Nations refugee agency is working on setting up the first permanent international presence in the Galkayo area of Somalia’s northern autonomous Puntland region since the 1990s to cope with an influx of 12,000 people who fled the latest fighting in the strife-torn country.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment given to a former government finance minister for his role in the genocide that engulfed the country in 1994.

The head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) today proposed the convening of a global summit backed by the UN to plan a future course of action for tackling the cross-cutting problem.

The United Nations and the African Union (AU) have intensified their preparations for the second phase of the process leading to the eventual deployment of a hybrid UN-AU peacekeeping force in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today started distributing food to 500,000 people in Uganda’s poorest region, Karamoja, where families are reeling from the effects of a third drought in six years, after the single rainy season from June to August fell well below average.

Although some countries have achieved breakthroughs in preventing HIV transmission from mothers to children and providing treatment for children living with HIV/AIDS, an “unconscionably” low percentage of pregnant women with HIV are receiving the necessary treatment, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today.

The United Nations envoy for the conflict in northern Uganda has arrived in southern Sudan for talks on how to achieve a political settlement and end the brutal 20-year rebellion of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

The UN body tasked with promoting sustainable industry unveiled a joint project with Microsoft today to support rural Ugandan enterprises through technology.

In his first meeting with United States President George W. Bush since assuming office as Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said the two leaders mutually pledged to work together to try to achieve the goals of peace and increased global prosperity.

The United Nations has the potential to enter another golden era equal to that of its early years, despite the array of daunting challenges – from finding peace in Darfur and the Middle East to long-term goals such as climate change and improving the lives of the world’s poorest – faced by the Organization, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.