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Alpha Oumar Konare, chairperson of the African Union Commission, says it is "scandalous" to spend $2-billion annually on the upkeep of a proposed 26Â 000-strong joint AU-United…
A long-awaited international convention against nuclear terrorism will come into force next week, nine years after it was originally proposed by Russia and 10 months after it was…
The legitimacy of a much-ballyhooed Security Council meeting on climate change has been challenged by developing nations that argue that the threat to the global environment is…
When the West African state of Liberia was torn apart by 14 years of civil war, the victims of the brutal insurgency included mostly women and children who were subject to rape…
The torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad and the wilful abuse and humiliation of terror suspects in the United States detention facility in…
When the United Nations launched a probe into ”misconduct and mismanagement” in UN procurement last January, it moved against eight staffers who were temporarily suspended…
Less than six weeks before he steps down as Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has come up with a political scorecard on the successes and failures of the UN’s…
As the United Nations continues to battle waste, mismanagement and corruption, an outgoing senior official has proposed that all high-level UN staffers should not only disclose…
The United Nations says that international aid work is one of the world’s most hazardous professions, in which humanitarian workers are constantly threatened with — or victims of…
The United Nations, which is fielding more than 19 800 peacekeeping troops in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is virtually fighting a losing battle to contain…
The United Nations has long campaigned against recruiters of child soldiers, urging their prosecution as war criminals. But the first break came only last week when the…
The United Nations has reacted angrily to a decision by the Eritrean government to restrict all UN helicopter flights monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the politically volatile…
After nearly six months of political dilly-dallying, the United Nations Security Council has taken the first ”major” step to protect children in armed conflicts — but has stopped…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s radical blueprint to restructure the world body has received mixed reviews from diplomats, human rights activists and NGOs.…
As the 15-member United Nations Security Council keeps dragging its feet over a proposed military and economic embargo aimed at punishing Sudan for mass killings in Darfur, the…
The United Nations is trying to transform one of the most politically unstable countries in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), into a multiparty democracy with…
The United Nations has earmarked nearly 60% of its just-approved 2003/2004 peacekeeping budget for Africa. Of the ,17-billion the world body plans to spend on peacekeeping in the…
