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.
Brahimi, who served as a UN envoy in Afghanistan, formally accepted the post and will resume efforts to find a diplomatic solution to Syria’s crisis.
South Africa has abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria as it felt it favoured one side of the conflict.
Every year, millions of people around the world suffer from the direct and indirect effects of the poorly regulated arms trade.
UN decides to end its mission to Syria, as regime troops continue to kill people across the country including "rebels", civilians, woman and children.
South Africa found itself on the receiving end of significant international condemnation, during a UN review of its human rights record this week.
Millions of North Korean children are not getting the food, and health care they need to develop physically or mentally accoring to a new UN report.
Zanu-PF is using Zimbabwe’s hosting of a United Nations tourism assembly to rebrand President Robert Mugabe.
A UN report has found that the total production, for the last five years, of low-enriched uranium would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons.
Activists say the hosting of the United Nations’ Navi Pillay is an attempt to sugar-coat Zimbabwe’s poor human rights record.
Convicted war criminal Charles Taylor has accused the international community of selectively targeting African heads of state with prosecutions.
Syrian troops have killed four students and arrested some 200 after storming an anti-regime protest at Aleppo University, in the north of the country.
Rebels have killed more than 20 troops in the Syrian army’s deadliest day of a ceasefire deal even as UN observers say they have a "calming" impact.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has voiced alarm over the fourth murder of a journalist in Brazil this year.
Syria has challenged the UN chief over the scope of a UN truce monitoring mission, resisting a larger presence as its army shelled targets in Homs.