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With United Nations backing, a new multimillion dollar project was launched today to prevent a recurrence of the massive loss of life caused by flooding along the Limpopo river in southern African in recent years.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that the bird flu epidemic in Asia is a "crisis of global importance," and predicted that the virus, which continues to circulate in the region, will probably not be eradicated in the near future.

A senior United Nations official today voiced sorrow at the death of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl who earlier this month had been hit by a bullet while sitting at her desk at a UN-run school in Gaza.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Burundi today offered its condolences to the family of a staff member who was shot to death on Saturday night in the capital Bujumbura.

At least 1,330 people are dead, another 1,056 are missing and the lives of nearly 300,000 others have been badly affected because of Tropical Storm Jeanne, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) reported today.

Most of the vast population of displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region "are living in prisons without walls," and yet the Sudanese Government continues to deny the scale and gravity of what is happening there, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said after returning from a visit to the strife-torn region.

The ability of countries to prevent terrorists, black marketers and other private interests from acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) will soon get essential support from a Security Council committee set up to monitor the problem, the panel’s chairman said today.

Security Council reform, calls for a fairer global trading system, disarmament, the threat of terrorism and the gap between the haves and have-nots were among the subjects debated this morning when the United Nations General Assembly's annual high-level debate resumed for its second week.

Voicing concern over the lack of progress in Côte d'Ivoire's national reconciliation process, Security Council members today called on President Laurent Gbagbo to make good on the pledges he made at a peace summit this summer.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly this afternoon, the Foreign Minister of Côte d'Ivoire said his Government is taking steps to restore stability to the conflict-torn West African country.