North Korea said on Friday it would take more ”self-defence” measures if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions over its nuclear test this week.
The African Union on Friday called on the UN to impose sanctions on Eritrea over its support for Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
North Korea on Wednesday threatened to conduct a nuclear test unless the UN Security Council apologises for imposing sanctions against it.
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/ 26 February 2009
The UN on Wednesday condemned the latest violence in Somalia, including a weekend suicide attack that killed 11 African peacekeepers.
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/ 6 February 2009
Sudan warned on Thursday that it would use ”all options” available if the ICC were to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir.
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/ 28 January 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that President Barack Obama apologise for "crimes" committed by the US against Iran.
SA’s membership of the UN Security Council was an historic milestone for the country, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.
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/ 21 November 2008
The DRC government on Friday demanded a stronger mandate for the peacekeeping force in the country after the UN voted to send extra troops.
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/ 18 November 2008
The United Nations Security Council hopes to vote this week on a resolution that would boost the number of UN peacekeepers in the DRC.
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/ 16 October 2008
Is there a trade-off between justice and peace? That is the question that now confronts the UN when it considers Sudan in the coming few weeks.
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/ 14 October 2008
The International Maritime Organisation speaks to us about how it plans to deal with bandits around Africa’s horn.
Kenya said on Wednesday it will send its navy to help break a two-week-old stand-off with Somali pirates holding an arms shipment.
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/ 25 September 2008
The UN on Wednesday renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Chad, which has been monitoring the country’s border with the CAR.
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/ 19 September 2008
Sudan’s UN envoy said on Thursday the fault for any delays in deploying peacekeepers to Darfur lies with the UN and not the Khartoum government.
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday authorised an African Union force in Somalia for another six months.
Islamic countries urged the UN Security Council on Monday to stall moves by the International Criminal Court to arrest Omar al-Bashir.
The UN Security Council is set to renew a mandate for peacekeepers in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region on Thursday.
Iran has been given a fortnight to agree to freeze its uranium-enrichment programme or face further international isolation.
The United Nations Security Council has lifted an arms embargo on Rwanda, about 13 years since it was imposed after the 1994 genocide.
The UN security council has called on Iran to curb uranium enrichment and reprocessing on the grounds that they could be used to make a bomb.
President Robert Mugabe has ”declared war” in Zimbabwe, said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday from inside the Dutch embassy in Harare.
Leaders will hold an meeting in Swaziland on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe but key negotiator President Thabo Mbeki will not attend.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday defied mounting pressure to call off Friday’s vote, saying he had a legal obligation to go ahead.
The UN Security Council considered on Monday a plan to disband its peacekeeping mission to the volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
The UN Security Council has agreed to take its first formal action on Zimbabwe by ruling that a free and fair election run-off is impossible.
The White House urged the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to take up immediate consideration of the situation in Zimbabwe.
The United Nations Security Council renewed a push for civilian rule in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s militia-plagued east on Sunday as efforts continue to disarm rebel groups.
United Nations Security Council envoys will ask Chad’s president to seek reconciliation with neighbour Sudan after rebel attacks this year that both sides blame on each other.
Accusing Sudan’s ”entire state apparatus” of involvement in crimes in Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments next month against senior Khartoum officials.
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.
Gunmen holding a Dutch ship in northern Somalia demanded a ,1-million ransom for the vessel on Tuesday, a day after the United Nations Security Council gave countries the right to combat piracy off the Somali coastline. The MV Amiya Scan, managed by the Dutch Reider Shipping BV, was hijacked by Somali pirates on May 27.
South Sudanese officials accused the government on Tuesday of reinforcing troops in the disputed oil town of Abyei, raising tensions as United Nations Security Council envoys flew in to shore up a peace deal. Clashes in Abyei last month increased fears of a return to war between the northern government and the south.