Zimbabwe has asked its neighbours, including South Africa, to help it fund a prestigious UN summit at Victoria Falls later this year.
The UN Security Council has signed off on a new and more aggressive mandate for its mission in the DRC.
Hundreds of refugees have fled fighting in South Sudan, as UN officials warn of "serious concerns" over the presence of armed groups in border camps.
NGOs have warned that the new plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo fails to tackle the root cause of the country’s conflicts.
China is likely to agree to new sanctions on its ally, North Korea as its frustration grows after it defied bans to conduct its third nuclear test.
Peacekeepers have taken over as France tries to prevent revenge killings in Mali.
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/ 2 February 2013
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hasappointed a seasoned humanitarian worker to serve as his Acting Special Representative in Haiti.
Britain has now pledged hundreds of millions of rands worth of humanitarian aid to help stop what it calls an escalating humanitarian crisis in Syria.
For African leaders who criticised French intervention in Cote d’Ivoire and Libya not too long ago, France’s advance in Mali must seem a nightmare.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a rare speech on Sunday about the uprising against his rule, which has killed 60000 people.
An NGO report reveals that Sudanese forces have carried out indiscriminate aerial bombings and violated international humanitarian law.
Diango Cissoko will replace Cheick Modibo Diarra as Mali’s prime minister after Diarra quit under pressure from former putschists.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has received the Unesco/Bilbao human rights prize for contributing towards a "universal culture of human rights".
The UN climate talks in Doha have yet to produce a deal the day after their scheduled close, with negotiators locked in a stand-off about funding.
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/ 3 December 2012
The UN said it’s suspending its aid operations in Syria and withdrawing all non-essential international staff due to the worsening security situation.
A UN-mandated watchdog has agreed to end monitoring controls on Zimbabwe’s diamond trade, after the government allayed concerns over Marange mines.
Radios, local doctors and techniques to help underweight newborns are saving the lives of women and children in Burundi.
The UN has called on foreign countries to stop meddling in the volatile region, and said M23 rebels have made no major moves to withdraw from Goma.
Lesotho’s declaration of a food emergency in August went fairly unnoticed in South Africa, but make no mistake: this is an emergency.
A bid for United Nations recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Middle East peace efforts.
There are signs that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are withdrawing from the strategic eastern city of Goma, says the United Nations.
Thousands of Congolese soldiers and policemen have defected to the M23 rebels, as rebel leaders vowed to take control of all of the Congo.
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/ 20 November 2012
The UN chief has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the US Secretary of State has headed to the region with a peace message.
The United Nations and United States have ordered sanctions against the head of a rebel group accused of atrocities as it seized territory in the DRC.
North Korea tried to export ballistic missile parts to Syria in May in violation of UN sanctions, according to Japanese media reports.
The only way forward for Syria is to broker a political settlement in consultation with Russia and Iran, writes Peter Hain.
Africa needs to be better represented in the United Nations security council, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe says the death of Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi was as tragic as that of US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
US President Barack Obama will lead Western demands for action on the Syrian civil war at the United Nations General Assembly.
Congo said it wants the UN peacekeeping force to "neutralise" a new rebel movement and a force that helped perpetrate Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
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/ 1 September 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he had used this week’s trip to push for human rights and transparency from Tehran over its nuclear programme.