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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distribution of emergency food aid to urban centres in Madagascar to help feed some 35,000 malnourished children affected by the country’s crisis.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today heard closing arguments in the genocide case against Laurent Semanza, called by prosecutors an “angel of death.”

While the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) has successfully implemented many aspects of its mandate, the country still requires international support to overcome the remaining challenges, the head of the UN operation said today in an open briefing to the Security Council.

United Nations police have arrested two more people in connection with serious criminal offences against Kosovo Albanians in June 1999, the UN mission in the province announced today.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, this morning condemned the latest "desperate act of terror" that killed innocent people, among them schoolchildren, in Jerusalem.

United Nations police in Kosovo today arrested four men suspected of committing serious crimes against other Kosovo Albanians in June 1999, the UN mission in the province said today.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned recent acts of intimidation by a rebel group against the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), including one on Monday in which UN personnel were abducted and assaulted.

Welcoming the decision of the world's leading industrialized nations to focus on solutions to Africa's problems at their annual meeting later this month, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Group of Eight countries also to act decisively on global concerns encapsulated in the Millennium Development Goals, especially the fight against poverty.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today voiced their deep concern about the humanitarian situation in Somalia and called on all parties involved to fulfil their obligations to guarantee the access and safety to all relief agencies and their personnel.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has approved the distribution plan for the latest phase of the United Nations oil-for-food programme for Iraq, which permits Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum revenues to buy humanitarian supplies.