An extraordinary Ecowas security summit has announced plans for a partnership with Central African states to fight "terrorism" in the region.
The ceasefire between South Sudan’s government and rebels will end months of violence and see the formation of a transitional government.
On Saturday Afghanistan votes for a new president. The M&G spoke to the UN’s special representative for Afghanistan ahead of the country’s elections.
After weeks of tough negotiations, a landmark United Nations agreement has strengthened women’s rights.
Israel has closed its embassies around the world as about 1 200 foreign ministry employees declare a strike over low salaries.
A group of UN-mandated investigators will launch a probe of human rights violations in the Central African Republic amid fears of genocide.
The UN has launched a counteroffensive drug laws around the world, warning that cannabis legalisation poses a danger to public health.
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In a letter to the UN, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, representing human rights activists, has appealed for a commission of inquiry in Sri Lanka.
Heavy fighting has erupted near the airport in CAR’s capital Bangui, as Christian militia blocked an attempt to evacuate Muslims.
The UN says the South Sudanese government and opposition troops are fighting ‘sporadic’ battles despite a ceasefire that came into force on Friday.
UN aid agencies say heavy fighting has prevented health workers from getting polio vaccine to 100 000 Syrian children.
African asylum seekers have demonstrated outside Western embassies in Tel Aviv in a second day of mass protests against Israel’s immigration policies.
After a deadly attack by rebels in DRC’s Kamango, SA helicopters in the UN intervention force have helped the country’s troops take back the town.
The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of troops to almost double the number of peacekeepers in South Sudan.
The United Nations says a mass grave had been discovered in rebel-held Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State.
India said it transferred a diplomat to its UN delegation in an attempt to protect her from prosecution for visa fraud and underpaying a maid.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has paid tribute to Nelson Mandela as a giant for justice, equality and human rights.
In a landmark intelligence-gathering exercise, the UN will begin using drones in the DRC to monitor its border and movements by armed groups.
The United Nations has voiced concern by North Korea’s food deficit, which is currently at its lowest level ever.
UN climate talks ran deep into extra time as rich and poor nations butted heads over their contributions to staving off dangerous planet warming.
Comment by Thuli Radebe, chief executive of CPSI.
The head of UN Women has called for urgent action to ensure the impact of global crises is not disproportionately borne by women, writes Liz Ford.
National assembly speaker Max Sisulu says the destruction of chemical weapons should take place in every country, not only in Syria.
One in eight people around the globe is chronically undernourished, says the United Nations’s food agencies in their latest report on food insecurity.
South Africa has welcomed a decision providing for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, the department of international relations has said.
Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister Joseph Made says that imported maize is being handed out to vulnerable people in a bid to stave of famine.
This week, Kenya mourns the tragedy in Nairobi, while SA probes "White Widow" claims; Zuma lashes the UN and a hyena makes a dash for freedom.
President Zuma was ready to klap the UN for basically ruining the world. But there are some things in Zuma’s presidency that will haunt him forever.
UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom has found in his report that nerve agent sarin was used in the August 21 attack on Damascus.
The US and Russia were to hold a third day of complex talks, seeking to hammer out a deal on eliminating Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons.
The M23 rebels have written to the UN secretary general saying they are not responsible for the DRC war, adding the UN body Monusco is to blame.