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The human rights situation in Uganda's Karamoja region has improved significantly over the last four months, with a “marked reduction” in human rights violations, road ambushes and the circulation of illegal arms, the United Nations said today.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sudan today to “lock in progress” made so far to end the crisis in the country's strife-torn Darfur region and observe first-hand the situation on the ground ahead of the deployment of a massive joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation.

The top United Nations envoy to Nepal today condemned a series of bomb blasts which struck Kathmandu, resulting in a number of casualties.