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Chemical weapons inspectors will examine two new sites in Libya containing possible chemical weapons stockpiles the former regime tried to hide.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court plans to ask judges to open an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in Côte d’Ivoire.
The deeply divided UN Security Council failed to agree on a European and US-backed statement condemning Syrian violence against peaceful protesters.
The African Union asked the UN Security Council on Friday to delay for a year the prosecution of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir.
Rwanda’s foreign minister on Monday vehemently denied the government was involved in three recent high-profile attacks on opponents.
US ambassador Susan Rice warned on Thursday that "blatant disregard" of a UN arms embargo in Darfur are undermining peace efforts.
Somalia is moving "from a failed state to a fragile state" but the government urgently needs financial and diplomatic support, a top UN envoy says.
The Sudanese government and rebel groups in Darfur refuse to abandon the military option and are increasingly violating a UN arms embargo.
The United Nations will try to fill life-threatening gaps left by Sudan’s expulsion of more than half the aid workers in Darfur.
After a decade of growth, the UN’s peacekeeping efforts are overstretched with 113 000 military, police and civilians deployed in 18 missions.
As the conflict in Darfur enters its sixth year, the United Nations peacekeeping chief on Friday painted a grim picture of widespread violence.
Zimbabwe’s growing crisis has seen school attendance plummet from more than 90% to 20%, a senior UN humanitarian official said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s president hopes that a power-sharing agreement with rivals will lead the West to ease sanctions on his country.
Only 13 000 of the 26 000 peacekeepers authorised for Darfur will be deployed by the end of the year, far below the 80% target.
The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of 2007, according to a report on Tuesday by the Coalition to Stop…
Chad’s foreign minister said the government is holding secret discussions with rebel groups who support peace and national reconciliation following a coup attempt earlier this…
The Sudanese government is putting up obstacles to the deployment of a 26 000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur that could destroy the effectiveness of the joint United…
The United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) have agreed on a highly mobile, robust joint force to help protect civilians and restore security to the Darfur region — but…
Children in Darfur are enduring ”unspeakable acts of violence and abuse” from killing and rape to abduction, torture and recruitment, as fighters in the escalating four-year…
The government of Chad has refused to allow the United Nations to send an advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of UN peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help…
