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/ 20 January 2009
Voicing shock and anger at the ”heartbreaking” devastation, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to pledge aid.
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/ 12 January 2009
A divided United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday adopted a resolution condemning Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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/ 19 December 2008
The UN on Thursday hailed convictions by a UN-backed tribunal of three senior Rwandan army officials for participating in the 1994 genocide.
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/ 19 December 2008
A joint UN-AU force in Darfur continues to face ”enormous challenges” almost a year after it was established, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says.
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/ 16 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s embattled government claimed on Tuesday to be victim of a terror campaign following an assassination bid against the air force chief.
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/ 13 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to hold talks next week with the UN on Zimbabwe, as Harare blamed Britain for a cholera outbreak.
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/ 6 December 2008
International frustration with Burma’s military government is growing, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.
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/ 29 October 2008
The political crisis in Zimbabwe has lasted too long and President Robert Mugabe must resolve the power-sharing impasse, the UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 October 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about the impasse in a Zimbabwe power-sharing accord.
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/ 22 September 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has appealed to rich countries to honour their 2005 pledge to more than double their aid to the African continent.
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/ 22 September 2008
Heads of state, private-sector leaders and development agencies will this week assess the global fight against poverty.
Nigeria on Thursday handed over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon to end a 15-year dispute over a territory believed to be rich in oil and gas.
The UN General Assembly and UN chief Ban Ki-Moon have called for a truce in hostilities around the world during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday formally appointed South African Judge Navanethem Pillay as his high commissioner for human rights.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that he was worried that a Sudanese rebel group active in Darfur region appeared to be using child soldiers.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition held a second day of talks in SA on Friday as the UN delayed a vote on fresh sanctions against Mugabe’s regime.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday led the world in condemning the killing of a top UN official in Mogadishu as an ”outrageous” act.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pledged to work to mediate the crisis in Zimbabwe, saying the election had implications for all of Africa.
Zimbabwe’s crisis will now move to the UN Security Council, as the international community mulls fresh sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s government.
Saudi Arabia, Opec’s largest producer, moved to take some of the heat out of rising fuel prices on Sunday with plans to increase production.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday hailed the deal reached by Sudan and southern former rebels to end a dispute over the flashpoint oil-rich region of Abyei.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday that failure was not an option in addressing the global food price crisis, and said an extra -billion to -billion per year would be needed to help avoid disaster.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to send up to 400 observers to this month’s run-off poll in Zimbabwe, double the number who oversaw the first round.
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court charges that ”the whole state apparatus” of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in the Darfur region, linking the government directly with the feared janjaweed militia.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, whose 28-year rule has brought widespread hunger to his country, on Tuesday defended the seizure of land from white farmers, saying he is undoing a legacy of Zimbabwe’s former colonial masters. Mugabe spoke to world leaders at a United Nations summit on the global food crisis against a backdrop of sharp criticism over his participation.
The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly one billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export bans. ”Nothing is more degrading than hunger, especially when man-made,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe made a surprise appearance on Monday at a world food summit in Rome, drawing fierce criticism from the British government. In his first official trip abroad since elections in March, Mugabe attended the summit organised by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
It has been described as a global crisis pushing 100-million people into hunger, threatening to stoke social and political turmoil and set the fight against world poverty back by seven years. Now, the food price crisis will be tackled by world leaders, who meet in Rome next week to seek ways of reducing the suffering for the world’s poorest people.
Further outbreaks of violence against foreigners in South Africa could lead Fifa to move the 2010 World Cup elsewhere, the United Nations adviser on sport said on Thursday. Willi Lemke said if the scenes repeat themselves, ”Fifa will rethink its decision in favour of South Africa and, if necessary, pull the plug.”
Western governments lashed out at the extension of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest, but the outrage at Burma’s generals was tempered by concern over disrupting aid flows to desperate cyclone victims. Burma has been promised millions of dollars in Western aid after Cyclone Nargis, but this cut no ice with the junta regarding the opposition leader.
Burma’s junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a move likely to dismay Western nations who promised millions of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis. Officials drove to the Nobel laureate’s lakeside Rangoon home to read out a six-month extension order in person.
Foreign aid workers saddled up for the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta on Monday to see whether army-ruled Burma will honour a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement. ”We’re going to head out today and test the boundaries,” said an official from a major Western relief agency.