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/ 21 December 2010
The United Nations Security Council extended its peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire on Monday.
The EU decided to slap visa bans on 19 Ivorians, including incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo and his powerful wife, Simone.
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/ 20 December 2010
Ivorian after troops loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo sealed off the routes around a hotel housing his foe, Alassane Ouattara.
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/ 19 December 2010
The UN offered Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe a retirement package and safe haven if he agreed to stand down, according to a Wikileaks cable.
Côte d’Ivoire leader Laurent Gbagbo ordered UN and French peacekeepers out of the country on Saturday, accusing them of backing rebel fighters.
After winning praise for their role in Cancùn, SA’s negotiators have high hopes for Durban talks.
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/ 17 December 2010
<b>Joanne Yawitch</b> questions Richard Calland’s thoughts on SA’s preparations for hosting COP17.
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/ 15 December 2010
China, cast as the wrecker of the UN climate negotiations last year, went some way towards rehabilitation.
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/ 13 December 2010
The EU said it is ready to slap "restrictive measures" against Côte d’Ivoire where Gbagbo is refusing to recognise his rival’s victory.
Ivorian leader told Mbeki that Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election had been rigged and that the outcome could not be trusted.
Elections in East and Southern Africa have left fewer women in politics, placing countries at risk of not meeting equality targets, the UN said.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that the world was missing its last chance to control climate change.
Regional bodies, businesses and locals grappled with the political crisis enveloping Côte d’Ivoire with defeated Laurent Gbagbo refusing to step down.
Former president Thabo Mbeki will on Tuesday hand a preliminary report on his emergency mission to Côte d’Ivoire to the chairman of the African Union
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/ 7 December 2010
India’s forests have long been at the centre of a development-versus-conservation debate in the rising Asian power.
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/ 5 December 2010
World climate talks in Cancún enter their final stretch with fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the 2009 Copenhagen summit.
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/ 1 December 2010
Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the Aids epidemic in the United States and European nations a top United Nations expert said.
Cholera is just the latest disaster to be linked to the United Nations in Haiti — and the country’s election won’t change the nature of the mission.
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/ 12 November 2010
Somali pirates have set up a sophisticated network of agents that has turned the seizing of ships into a lucrative business.
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/ 12 November 2010
Nigeria’s foreign minister is threatening action against Iran if it violated international law and UN sanctions in an arms-smuggling case.
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/ 11 November 2010
Over 700 women, men and children were raped when Angola expelled thousands of people back to the DRC over the past two
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/ 4 November 2010
The declining rankings of SA in key development and competitiveness indicators points to a massive policy failure by government, the DA said.
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/ 3 November 2010
Somali pirates have increased the number of successful hijackings in 2010, become more violent and expanded their attack zone, the UN says.
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/ 23 October 2010
Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2010
Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animals species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, a report said on Friday.
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/ 18 October 2010
The world cannot afford to allow nature’s riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday.
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/ 15 October 2010
Celebrities and government officials called on Friday for urgent collective action to eradicate world hunger.
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/ 15 October 2010
United Nations troops are to be moved to the tense north-south Sudan frontier to head off violence ahead of a referendum.
UN troops could create limited buffer zones in hot spots along the border of north and south Sudan before a referendum on the south’s independence.
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/ 23 September 2010
Governments are on the brink of breaking a Millennium Development Goal promise of a decent quality basic education for all by 2015.
United States President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty.
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/ 23 September 2010
An attack by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May was unlawful, a panel of international experts said on Wednesday.