The humanitarian air service run by the UN could face a shutdown next month in key locations owing to a lack of funds, a spokesperson said on Friday.
The announcement that the United Nations has a record $4,8-billion funding gap for its 2009 aid programmes may not strike some observers as news.
Honduras’ ousted president has called on the international community to support him in returning to power after crisis talks broke down.
A United Nations report has warned that the negative economic climate could slow progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, the president said on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s agricultural production is estimated to have risen significantly, but many people still face problems finding basic foods, the UN says.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for a reform of international financial institutions on Wednesday at the start of a UN conference.
Japan has won the ”Fossil of the Day Award” for being the country that has do the most to disrupt progress at UN climate change talks, say NGOs.
France and the United Nations both warned on Tuesday against military intervention to resolve Madagascar’s political crisis.
Somalis fleeing war and hunger at home are pouring into neighbouring Kenya at an average rate of 7 000 a month, the UN said on Thursday.
Zimbabwe needs -million in urgent humanitarian help in 2009, as the country struggles to attract Western aid in an attempt to emerge from a decade
North Korea test-fired another short-range missile off its east coast on Friday and threatened more ”self-defence measures”.
The UN said on Friday that the number of deaths in Sri Lanka’s civil war in recent months was ”unacceptably high”, but declined to give figures.
Fierce battles in Mogadishu forced about 8 000 people to flee the Somali capital in one day, the United Nations said on Sunday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday toured Sri Lanka’s largest war displaced persons camp, amid concerns for 300 000 Tamils left homeless.
The United Nations has accused Sri Lankan authorities of blocking access to civilians trapped in the former war zone.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday welcomed the election of the United States to the top United Nations rights forum.
The UN condemned a ”bloodbath” in Sri Lanka on Monday after two days of shelling that a government doctor said killed 1 000 civilians.
Israeli plans to withdraw troops from part of a divided village on the Lebanese border are a ploy, Lebanon’s prime minister said on Monday.
South Africa’s ambassador to the UN, Dumisani Kumalo, has returned home after the country’s tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
The Darfur war has gone from intense fighting in 2004 when tens of thousands were killed to ”a low-intensity conflict” with about 150 deaths a month.
Sri Lanka must put in practice its latest pledge not to use heavy weapons as it fights the Tamil Tiger rebels, the UN said on Monday.
At the UN Climate Change Convention talks held in Bonn recently 192 countries met to discuss long-term cooperative action to address climate change.
The world’s largest UN peacekeeping effort risks unraveling in the the DRC, hampered by the potential loss of more than a quarter of its troops
The UN on Friday appointed Richard Goldstone to lead a high-level mission to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the incoming Israeli right-wing government to freeze settlements.
The UN atomic watchdog was to hold a crunch ballot on Friday to elect its new chief, a day after the candidates failed to win a clear lead.
The United Nations is guarding Madagascar’s opposition leader and the country’s defence minister quit on Tuesday after just a month in the job.
Fears were mounting on Friday of a new humanitarian disaster in Darfur after Sudan ordered the expulsion of aid agencies.
Madagascan security forces attempted to arrest opposition leader Andry Rajoelina on Friday, heightening tensions between police and protesters.
The United Nations human rights office will examine whether Sudan’s decision to expel aid groups constitutes a breach of basic human rights.
United Nations peacekeepers are worried by a military build-up along the Sudan-Chad border, a top official said on Monday.