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Côte d'Ivoire's Council of Ministers met today for the first time since March, fulfilling the pledges that political party leaders made at a summit convened and co-chaired by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan late last month in Ghana.

In an effort to coordinate the battle against hunger and malnutrition, especially among women and children, the United Nations emergency feeding agency and the Arab League have signed their first memorandum of understanding for future cooperation.

With drought conditions in Sri Lanka worsening and the cumulative rainfall by mid-July falling some 30 to 50 percent below normal in most areas, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that the next couple of months will be critical for the main crop season in the Indian Ocean island.

After almost three decades of war followed by two years of peace and stability, security in Angola has noticeably improved, cereal production is growing and the number of people needing food aid is falling, but the southern African country is still only achieving a tiny fraction of its agricultural potential, according to a United Nations report.

Dozens of young Palestinian and Israeli delegates from the network "Middle East Youth for Peace" will visit the United Nations complex in Vienna for a tour tomorrow to acquaint them with the peace-making work of the UN and encourage them to continue their collaboration.

Representatives of the rebel movements in Sudan's western Darfur region have agreed to allow some 500,000 children cut off from regular health services to be vaccinated against such potentially killer diseases as measles and polio, the United Nations announced today.

The United Nations today marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People with calls to governments, intergovernmental organizations and the international community at-large for urgent action to end the gross human rights abuses, discrimination and marginalization that all too often are still their lot in society.

Asian-Pacific fisheries, a vital source of food and crucial for the economies of the region, are threatened by overfishing and a resulting decline in the abundance of more valuable species, according to a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The senior United Nations anti-drug official in Afghanistan today welcomed the issuance of a religious decree condemning narcotics and related activities.

The top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan today condemned in the strongest terms the murder Friday of two Afghan electoral workers in an attack on their convoy.