- 30 Nov 2012 00:00 - Clar Ni Chonghaile
- Radios, local doctors and techniques to help underweight newborns are saving the lives of women and children in Burundi.
- 29 Nov 2012 12:04 - Sapa-AFP
- The UN has called on foreign countries to stop meddling in the volatile region, and said M23 rebels have made no major moves to withdraw from Goma.
- 29 Nov 2012 11:09 - Suzanne Beukes
- Lesotho's declaration of a food emergency in August went fairly unnoticed in South Africa, but make no mistake: this is an emergency.
- 28 Nov 2012 19:32 - Karin Laub
- A bid for United Nations recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Middle East peace efforts.
- 28 Nov 2012 10:49 - Sapa-AFP
- There are signs that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are withdrawing from the strategic eastern city of Goma, says the United Nations.
- 21 Nov 2012 14:39 - Sapa-AP
- Thousands of Congolese soldiers and policemen have defected to the M23 rebels, as rebel leaders vowed to take control of all of the Congo.
- 20 Nov 2012 10:33 - Maayan Lubell, Nidal Al-Mughrabi,
- The UN chief has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the US Secretary of State has headed to the region with a peace message.
- 14 Nov 2012 09:39 - Sapa-AFP
- The United Nations and United States have ordered sanctions against the head of a rebel group accused of atrocities as it seized territory in the DRC.
- 14 Nov 2012 07:21 - Sapa-AFP
- North Korea tried to export ballistic missile parts to Syria in May in violation of UN sanctions, according to Japanese media reports.
- 22 Oct 2012 07:45 - Guardian Reporter
- The only way forward for Syria is to broker a political settlement in consultation with Russia and Iran, writes Peter Hain.
- 28 Sep 2012 16:39 - Sapa
- Africa needs to be better represented in the United Nations security council, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
- 27 Sep 2012 07:49 - Arshad Mohammed
- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says the death of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi was as tragic as that of US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
- 25 Sep 2012 13:42 - Tangi Quemener
- US President Barack Obama will lead Western demands for action on the Syrian civil war at the United Nations General Assembly.
- 01 Sep 2012 08:52 - Sapa-AP
- Congo said it wants the UN peacekeeping force to "neutralise" a new rebel movement and a force that helped perpetrate Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
- 01 Sep 2012 07:17 - Andrew Torchia
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he had used this week's trip to push for human rights and transparency from Tehran over its nuclear programme.
- 18 Aug 2012 07:06 - Ron DePasquale
- Brahimi, who served as a UN envoy in Afghanistan, formally accepted the post and will resume efforts to find a diplomatic solution to Syria's crisis.
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- 20 Jul 2012 15:27 - Sapa
- South Africa has abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria as it felt it favoured one side of the conflict.
- 06 Jul 2012 07:26 - Ewa Björling, Laurent Fabius, William Hague & Guido Westerwelle
- Every year, millions of people around the world suffer from the direct and indirect effects of the poorly regulated arms trade.
