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United Nations agencies and their partners are supporting a mass vaccination campaign against yellow fever in Sudan's South Kordofan state, where 530 cases have already been reported, 131 of them fatal, following the weekend arrival of 1.7 million doses of vaccine.

Representatives of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) and United Nations agencies are meeting today and tomorrow in Paris for a public forum and a television programme examining the potential for expanding trade and investment between Asia and Africa.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative in Sudan, visiting the leaders of two rebel factions at odds in Darfur over the past few days, has stressed that they must work together for the sake of their people at the Abuja peace talks, which officially recommence tomorrow in the Nigerian capital.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has congratulated its newest Ambassador against Hunger, Brazilian and Barcelona soccer star Ronaldinho, on winning one of soccer's most prestigious prizes – the 50th European Player of the Year award.

With Belarus and Malaysia signing a protocol that allows more effective nuclear inspections in their countries, 106 States have signed the important verification tool, with 16 signing this year alone, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations.

The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia today launched a programme to provide formal education to 20,000 disarmed former combatants as part of efforts to reintegrate into the mainstream the West African country's former belligerents who ended their civil conflict in 2003.

The UN refugee agency is transferring more than 400 recently arrived refugees from the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who say they are fleeing fighting between the DRC army and the Mayi-Mayi militia, to a camp in northern Burundi.

The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq held talks this weekend with the country's President and Prime Minister on the latest political developments as well as reported human rights abuses in government detention centres, which the two leaders pledged to rectify.

The Governing Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome today appropriated $765.7 million for the agency's work in 2006&#82112007 and approved plans for cuts in programmes.

At a United Nations-chaired meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, representatives of Ethiopia and Eritrea traded blame for the rising tensions along their shared border but pledged not to escalate them further, the UN Mission in the two Horn of Africa countries (UNMEE) announced today.