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Bearing a message from the Russian who invented the world’s most common assault rifle, activists will press governments at a United Nations conference on small arms to ensure…
The top United Nations humanitarian official warned on Friday that relief efforts in Darfur could collapse within weeks unless the government makes good on a peace deal and…
Twelve years after the Rwanda genocide, nations still seem unwilling to commit the troops and money that would be needed to stop other mass slaughters of civilians, a top United…
In a secret and secure location, a set of computers holds the hundreds of thousands of files that document how companies and individuals exploited the United Nations oil-for-food…
The former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food programme resigned on Sunday, a day before investigators release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks. Benon…
The United Nations Security Council has condemned sex abuse by peacekeepers for the first time, after hearing from the head of an inquiry into abuse that member nations have…
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s transitional government still has a long way to go before it will be ready to hold national elections, but a credible vote is possible and…
Far more people have died in Sudan’s ravaged Darfur region than the 70 000 reported since last year, and many of those deaths were from preventable causes like pneumonia and…
United Nations peacekeeping officials sought more power to conduct aerial surveillance and electronic warfare against militia who have stepped up attacks in the Democratic…
