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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.
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/ 18 November 2008
Charlize Theron is the latest UN messenger of peace, turning her fame to ending violence against women and girls around the globe.
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/ 16 November 2008
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed on Sunday to take part in UN-backed peace talks, but fighting between the army and rebels raged on.
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/ 14 November 2008
About 60 000 refugees are to be moved from a camp on the frontline of fighting between DRC rebels and government forces, the United Nations says.
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/ 13 November 2008
UN peacekeepers blamed rebels in eastern DRC on Wednesday for forcing thousands of displaced people to flee a refugee camp.
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/ 12 November 2008
The UN Security Council is overcoming its reluctance to send more peacekeepers to help avert a new war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 11 November 2008
The UN on Tuesday accused government forces of a wave of violence against civilians, including looting and rape, in several towns in eastern DRC.
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/ 1 November 2008
Fears mounted over the fate of tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.
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/ 30 October 2008
DRC rebels closed in on the eastern town of Goma on Wednesday, causing panic among residents and forcing the evacuation of aid workers.
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/ 29 October 2008
The political crisis in Zimbabwe has lasted too long and President Robert Mugabe must resolve the power-sharing impasse, the UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 October 2008
A new bout of heavy fighting erupted between government and rebel forces on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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/ 28 October 2008
UN peacekeepers prepared to evacuate about 50 foreign aid workers from a town in violence-ravaged eastern DRC on Tuesday as Tutsi rebels advanced.
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/ 27 October 2008
UN and African Union representatives are meeting in Pretoria on Monday to discuss how the world body can support regional peacekeeping efforts.
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/ 23 October 2008
Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality, says a new UN report on the urban environment.
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/ 22 October 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday appealed to United Nations member states to ”end the slaughter” resulting from the uncontrolled small arms trade.
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/ 14 October 2008
Heavy fighting in the eastern DRC has driven at least 1 700 people from a refugee camp, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 October 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about the impasse in a Zimbabwe power-sharing accord.
Gareth Evans’s latest book, Responsibility to Protect, offers a guide to protecting citizens against violence.