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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United States have teamed up to provide temporary shelter for almost 80,000 households hit by recent flooding in northern Sudan.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that long-term relief and recovery efforts will be needed for the millions people that have been affected by severe flooding across South Asia.

Senior United Nations officials will tomorrow hold their first round of high-level consultations with the Government of Southern Sudan to see how to better implement the January 2005 comprehensive peace agreement that ended the country’s protracted north-south war.

The Security Council today welcomed the progress made during “pre-negotiation” talks last weekend with some of Darfur’s rebel groups and called on all sides to the conflict to now show their commitment to the peace process by ending their hostilities.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced his intention to appoint Andrew Hughes, an Australian with over 30 years of experience in national law enforcement and United Nations peacekeeping, as the world body’s top police official.

A second round of United Nations-backed talks on Western Sahara will begin on Friday outside of New York, a spokesman for the world body announced today.

A project backed by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has the potential to bolster nuclear cooperation in the Middle East.

Two United Nations agencies have launched a $44 million programme to reduce female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) by 40 per cent by 2015 and to end the harmful traditional practice within a generation.

Thousands of Haitian women this week registered to join their country’s police academy in a campaign led by the national police service and backed by the United Nations to encourage the recruitment of more female officers.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the forthcoming summit meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas as way to advance progress already made in international negotiations to rid the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) of all its nuclear weapon facilities and materials in return for energy and other aid.