Five deaths in Congo from what is believed to be the deadly ebola virus have been reported to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), that agency said today.
A senior United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said today that he expected the Security Council to extend for one year the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, known as MONUC.
The United Nations today marked the first World Day Against Child Labour, which aims to call attention to this scourge and boost efforts aimed at eradicating it.
A new project aimed at stemming the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in the Great Lakes Region of Africa was launched today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), that agency announced.
The search for new ways to provide increased humanitarian assistance to Angolans in need dominated discussions today between the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, and senior Angolan government officials, according to a United Nations spokesman.
An upcoming gathering of dozens of celebrities who lend their names as advocates of the United Nations will be an important step in their efforts to promote the world body's work, a senior UN official said today.
Countries from across the globe attending a United Nations conference in Rome have renewed their commitment to reduce by half the number of hungry people in the world by no later than 2015, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), which is organizing the event, announced today.
The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), which, in the face of serious difficulties, “continues to serve the international community well,” should be extended for a further year, according to a new report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
As Afghanistan today opened its Loya Jirga - a tribal council considered key to the country's political transition - the former King nominated Hamid Karzai to lead the nation, according to a United Nations spokeswoman.