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A United Nations relief agency is sending Guyana enough food for 10,000 of the people worst-affected by the recent flooding, but warnings have come of more rains in the next few days, with high tides along the low-lying Atlantic coast of the South American country.

With the number of human bird flu cases in Viet Nam since mid-December now reaching 10, nine of them fatal, the United Nations health agency has warned that further sporadic cases and occasional family clusters can be expected considering the current spread of outbreaks in poultry in some Asian countries.

A record 166 countries contributed to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in 2004 for total contributions of $326 million, the highest ever in the 35-year history of the world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes.

Grants totalling $10 million from the Gates Foundation will allow the distribution of a polio vaccine in Egypt that tackles a stubborn form of the virus in the ongoing campaign to eradicate the crippling disease globally, the United Nations public heath and children’s organizations said today.

The top United Nations human rights official is due to arrive in Afghanistan later today to offer her support to local efforts to tackle past human rights abuses during the country's many years of civil war and Taliban rule.

Two rebel militias which are about to become integrated into the national army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a peace accord ending several wars are trying to destabilize the eastern Ituri region, slowing United Nations disarmament and reintegration efforts there.

The United Nations faces the daunting task in 2005 of delivering on an ambitious reform agenda while ensuring that the war on poverty and hunger and the fight against terrorism are not seen as mutually exclusive, according to Secretary-General Kofi Annan's newly appointed Chief of Staff, Mark Malloch Brown.

Nearly four-fifths of the recent United Nations humanitarian appeals have addressed African problems, but the response has been slow to nearly non-existent, the chief of the UN humanitarian office told the Security Council today.

A senior United Nations humanitarian official today expressed his serious concerns following reports that about 100 people were killed or injured when Sudanese Government airplanes bombed a village in the northern section of the country's war-scarred Darfur region.

The report from the United Nations-appointed commission of inquiry into whether genocide has occurred in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region arrived today at UN Headquarters in New York.