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.
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/ 16 September 2010
As a significant resolution hits the table at the UN Human Rights Council this month, SA’s vote will make all the difference, argue activists.
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/ 14 September 2010
The Uganda army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft report that it committed war crimes in the DRC in the 1990s.
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/ 9 September 2010
The UN urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as it sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report.
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/ 2 September 2010
UN peacekeepers say they have stepped up patrols in a region of the DRC where the number of mass rape victims has increased to more than 240.
Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the "unprecedented scale" of the disaster, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The number of people in Somalia needing humanitarian assistance has dropped by a quarter to two million over the past six months, the UN says.
The deputy head of the UN mission in the DRC has called on the international community for a "big financial effort" to help the country.
Only a small fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the UN battles donor fatigue.
The United Nations warned on Monday that up to 3,5-million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in Pakistan’s floods.
Authorities warned of more flooding this week in Pakistan and heavy rain lashed victims living in makeshift camps Monday.