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With the prospect of national elections still undecided for end October and a continued impasse among political factions in Côte d’Ivoire, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking $13.8 million in international assistance to extend its relief operations until the end of 2006 for victims of the turmoil.

Saying that after 15 years of conflict, Liberia’s elections today can usher in lasting peace, democratic development and reconstruction, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged registered voters in the West African country to go to the polls.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s new Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Peter van Walsum, is set to start his first trip to the region tomorrow with visits to Morocco, Algeria and other principals in an effort to overcome the impasse blocking a 2003 peace plan for a referendum on self-determination.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced plans to transfer some 2,000 Iranian Kurdish refugees from an insecure camp in central Iraq to a more stable location in the north.

A preliminary review of HIV incidence and prevalence in Zimbabwe has indicated a decline over the past five years, possibly due to a decrease in the number of sexual partners, and increased condom use, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said today.

The United Nations agency responsible for children vaccinated 1.3 million children between the ages of 9 and 10 in Bangladesh this September, reaching 98 per cent of their target, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.

Thousands of children in northern Kenya are malnourished, or at risk of malnutrition, and face the threat of polio and rising regional violence over scarce water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, as it appealed for $4 million.

One week after the Security Council called upon the Government of Eritrea to reverse its decision to restrict flights over its airspace, United Nations helicopters remain grounded because of the restrictions, which are hampering the world body’s peacekeeping activities in the area.

With a significant number of voters and with candidates representing a broad range of political opinion gearing up for upcoming elections in Haiti, a credible vote is possible but the Transitional Government must take further measures to ensure success, a new United Nations report says.

The historic achievements of the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will be tarnished if seven senior-level accused still at large are not brought to justice, the court’s president has told the General Assembly.