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/ 19 December 2010
Côte d’Ivoire’s leader Laurent Gbagbo ordered the UN and French troops to leave the country but UN chief Ban Ki-moon is refusing to budge.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that the world was missing its last chance to control climate change.
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/ 3 November 2010
Somali pirates have increased the number of successful hijackings in 2010, become more violent and expanded their attack zone, the UN says.
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/ 9 September 2010
The UN urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as it sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Rwanda in the midst of a major dispute over a leaked UN report on war crimes allegedly committed by Rwanda.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Pakistan on Sunday to visit areas ravaged by floods and urged the world to speed up aid.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday announced a four-member panel to probe Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Advocates claim that the United Nations "has failed women", and that a new women’s agency was already lacking transparency.
Ban Ki-moon has urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court and rejected criticism the body was a court for only African crimes.
The UN’s Ban Ki-Moon told a conference on Somalia that if the global community does not redouble its efforts there will be little chance of peace.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the Middle East Quartet "strongly supports" Palestinian efforts to create their own state.
The UN has warned that failure to meet global poverty-reduction goals by a 2015 deadline will spawn increased instability and violence.
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/ 31 January 2010
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday criticised power-grabs in Africa as Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi reluctantly handed over the presidency of the AU.
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/ 21 January 2010
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is alarmed by the bloody inter-communal clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
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/ 16 December 2009
Ban Ki-moon suggested that a deal on climate change might not include a figure on financial aid for developing countries, a report said on Wednesday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon is in Burma on a mission to press the ruling junta to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for a reform of international financial institutions on Wednesday at the start of a UN conference.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Sudan not to expel foreign aid agencies after an arrest warrant was issued for President Omar al-Bashir.
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/ 25 February 2009
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to free about 30 jailed activists to help "heal the nation".
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/ 24 February 2009
UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrived on Tuesday in South Africa, where he is expected to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe with President Kgalema Motlanthe.
World leaders gathered in Rome on Tuesday for a United Nations summit on food security as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged "hard decisions" and heavy investment in agriculture. "For years, falling food prices and rising production lulled the world into complacency," Ban said, adding: "Governments put off hard decisions."
Burma’s junta on Saturday came under renewed international pressure from rights groups and the United States defence chief, who said its slow response to the cyclone disaster had cost "tens of thousands of lives". US Defence Secretary Robert Gates criticised the delay in allowing in foreign aid, saying US ships could have swiftly brought relief.
Foreign aid workers on Tuesday pressed into Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone. Six foreign staff based in Rangoon with the United Nations Children’s Fund were allowed to join teams of mainly Burma workers.
A few aid shipments had arrived in Burma’s main city by Thursday, but the planeloads of supplies and heavy equipment needed to help millions of cyclone victims remain largely stranded outside the country. In a dramatic development, the ruling junta agreed to accept United States emergency aid after last weekend’s cyclone.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed alarm at reports of rising violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe and said he was consulting with African leaders on how to help resolve the country’s election crisis. "I am deeply concerned at reports of rising levels of violence and intimidation" in Zimbabwe, he told reporters.
The United Nations’s new top adviser on food blamed two decades of wrong-headed policies by world powers for the food crisis sweeping the globe in a stinging interview published on his first day in office. Frenchman Olivier de Schutter told <i>Le Monde</i> newspaper the world needed to prepare for the end of "cheap food".
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday expressed grave concern at the mounting violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel and urged all parties to show restraint. "The secretary general is gravely concerned at the escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel," his press office said in a statement.
The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming. ”The world is waiting for a solution that is long-term and economically viable,” said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
African neighbours Chad and Sudan will sign an agreement to end their long-running conflict in Dakar next week, the Senegalese president said on Friday. "There will be the signing of a general agreement and an implementation agreement" on March 12, President Abdoulaye Wade said.
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/ 23 January 2008
The annual Davos gathering of the world’s political and business elite opened on Wednesday with the fragile state of the world economy and stock-market turmoil casting a pall over the glitzy get-together. In recent years the annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort has been held against a backdrop of bumper corporate profits, strong economic growth and tame inflation.
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/ 16 January 2008
Fresh violence in the Sudanese state of West Darfur has restricted humanitarian work around El Geneina, with aid workers describing the region as a "no-go area". According to aid workers, who did not want to be named, two villages in Geneina were bombed on January 12 and 13 by Sudanese government Antonov planes.
Calling for urgent reform of the United Nations, France President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged on Tuesday to help Brazil, Germany, India, Japan and a major African country join the UN Security Council as permanent members. Sarkozy said he had recently told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that "UN reform can’t wait any longer".