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.
Rumours that SA soldiers have been killed or seriously injured in DRC should not be taken seriously, says the South African National Defence Force.
An international tourism event is all he needs to redeem himself — and rub Morgan Tsvangirai’s nose in it.
About 82 children have been rescued from an armed group in the southeastern DRC and are being reunited with their families.
Mali’s presidential election will go to a second round on August 11, after no candidate secured a majority in the landmark poll.
South Africa’s former deputy president, now head of UN Women, says the days of anti-feminist excuses are numbered.
The United Nations and Syria says negotiations between Damascus and the UN chemical weapons investigator have been "productive".
The UN Security Council has approved the July 1 deployment of a Mali peacekeeping force, all while facing harsh challenges in a vast desert territory.
The battle over Japan’s controversial whaling program is moving from the high seas to the United Nations’ highest court.
Denel has released the names and images of the South African employees who have been killed after an attack on a United Nations facility in Somalia.
Tax avoidance and "murky" deals by major international firms are depriving African states of tens of billions of dollars each year, says Kofi Annan.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab insurgents have shot and blasted their way into the UN compound in Mogadishu, leaving eight people dead.
UN representatives may think twice about crossing Ban Ki-moon in future after he was awarded an honorary 10th degree black belt in taekwondo.
Nineteen NGOs have written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon to express concern over a new "robust" brigade to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Humanitarian aid won’t be allowed into Qusair until the fighting there is over, Syria’s foreign minister has told UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
A new initiative of the World Bank and United Nations aims to ensure access to electricity for "everyone in the world".
Claims that South African soldiers in Sudan have not been getting their fortnightly allowance from the UN are unfounded, says SANDF.
Zimbabwe has withdrawn its appeal for UN funds to help hold key elections this year, after the world body demanded to meet civic groups.
An intervention brigade designed to fight armed groups in the restive eastern DRC will be made up of 3 069 troops, the UN has confirmed.