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/ 2 February 2009
Peacekeepers held urgent talks with the Sudanese government on Monday on how to protect 5 000 civilians holed up in a UN base in a war-zone town.
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/ 2 February 2009
Mayor Andry Rajoelina on Monday sought the removal of President Marc Ravalomanana in the wake of violent protests that left dozens dead.
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/ 2 February 2009
Robert Mugabe has agreed to allow a top-level UN team to visit Zimbabwe to find ways of curbing a cholera epidemic and a hunger crisis.
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/ 28 January 2009
The leader of Rwandan Hutu rebels on Wednesday predicted that intense fighting would erupt within days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama told Arab television he would not wait until the end of his administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace.
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/ 24 January 2009
After a decade of growth, the UN’s peacekeeping efforts are overstretched with 113 000 military, police and civilians deployed in 18 missions.
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/ 21 January 2009
Israeli troops completed on Wednesday their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip after a 22-day offensive against the Islamist Hamas movement.
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/ 19 January 2009
Honore Tadri was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the town’s residents had gathered.
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/ 16 January 2009
The death toll from cholera in Zimbabwe has reached 2 201, the UN said on Friday, warning that prevention measures were not working.
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/ 13 January 2009
SA refused to support a declaration by the UN General Assembly on Human Rights Day, December 18, calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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/ 12 January 2009
Afghanistan will not be able to reach its goal of being free from landmines by March 2013 unless urgent funding is received, the UN said on Monday.
Rebels clashed on Friday with a pro-government militia in eastern DRC as a United Nations envoy held talks with guerrilla chief Laurent Nkunda.
Ugandan rebels have killed 38 people since Christmas in a wave of attacks on southern Sudanese villages, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 23 December 2008
There are about 6 000 child soldiers in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur where about two million children have been affected by conflict.
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/ 20 December 2008
As the conflict in Darfur enters its sixth year, the United Nations peacekeeping chief on Friday painted a grim picture of widespread violence.
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/ 18 December 2008
The death toll from a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has soared to 1 111, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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/ 18 December 2008
A 17 000-strong peacekeeping mission in the DRC is no longer equal to the task after a recent upsurge in fighting, a top UN official says.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, hailed for brokering the historic 1991 peace settlement to end the war with Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, has died of a heart attack.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, one of Indonesia’s most widely respected foreign ministers, has died. He was 76.
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/ 16 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s embattled government claimed on Tuesday to be victim of a terror campaign following an assassination bid against the air force chief.
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/ 16 December 2008
The death toll from cholera in Zimbabwe has soared to 978, with 18 413 suspected cases reported, United Nations figures showed on Monday.
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/ 13 December 2008
A UN conference made progress on Friday towards agreeing a fund to help poor nations cope with the impacts of climate change.
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/ 13 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to hold talks next week with the UN on Zimbabwe, as Harare blamed Britain for a cholera outbreak.
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/ 12 December 2008
Environment minister Martinus van Schalkwyk got tough with countries holding up negotiations when he arrived at the UN climate change conference.
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/ 8 December 2008
Rebels opened peace negotiations with a government delegation on Monday in their first direct talks on ending the conflict in eastern DRC.
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/ 6 December 2008
International frustration with Burma’s military government is growing, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.
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/ 28 November 2008
Cholera has killed 389 people in Zimbabwe to date and the disease is also spreading into neighbouring Botswana and South Africa, the UN has warned.
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/ 27 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s growing crisis has seen school attendance plummet from more than 90% to 20%, a senior UN humanitarian official said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC have violated a fragile ceasefire and seized more territory, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 November 2008
Hundreds of DRC rebel fighters pulled back on Wednesday from frontline positions in a move the UN hopes will open the way for peace talks.
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/ 19 November 2008
cPolitical prisoners and criminal detainees are systemically tortured in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, a United Nations investigator said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 November 2008
DRC rebel fighters pulled back on Wednesday from two key battlefronts as aid workers warned of a massive increase in malnutrition.