At least 42 passengers drowned and more than 100 are missing after their boat sank on the river Oubangui in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday formally appointed South African Judge Navanethem Pillay as his high commissioner for human rights.
Somalia’s new opposition head, Islamist cleric Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, has vowed to protect aid workers in the Horn of Africa nation.
Rebuilding Burma’s cyclone-devastated south and bringing aid to millions will cost -billion over the next three years, the UN and Asean say.
South African Judge Navanethem Pillay is to be named as the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, diplomats and UN officials say.
Gordon Brown will hold urgent talks with European leaders about Zimbabwe on Sunday after a UN sanctions plan collapsed in disarray.
Robert Mugabe is ”happy” at the veto of a draft United Nations resolution to impose tough new sanctions, as talks continue in Pretoria.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition held a second day of talks in SA on Friday as the UN delayed a vote on fresh sanctions against Mugabe’s regime.
A United Nations tribunal on Thursday acquitted Macedonia’s former interior minister of murder, cruel treatment and other war crimes.
Sudan on Thursday condemned an attack on United Nations-led peacekeepers in Darfur, accusing rebels of orchestrating the ambush.
Dozens of suspected Janjaweed militiamen have ambushed a United Nations convoy in Sudan’s Darfur region, killing seven peacekeepers.
Suspected Janjaweed militia have ambushed the beleaguered United Nations mission in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.
Cambodia’s prime minister on Tuesday hailed the designation of an 11th-century Hindu temple as a world heritage landmark.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday led the world in condemning the killing of a top UN official in Mogadishu as an ”outrageous” act.
The UN admits that the past half-year was turbulent because of the credit crunch that sent shares reeling and dulled investors’ appetite for risk.
The international community must deploy UN peacekeepers in Somalia without delay or risk worsening insecurity, the country’s prime minister says.
Robert Mugabe said on Friday he is only open to negotiations on an end to Zimbabwe’s political crisis if he is accepted as the country’s president.
South African progressive forces must urgently reopen discussions on racism and xenophobia, argues Horace Campbell.
China’s devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pledged to work to mediate the crisis in Zimbabwe, saying the election had implications for all of Africa.
Zimbabwe’s crisis will now move to the UN Security Council, as the international community mulls fresh sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s government.
EU leaders threaten Sudan with sanctions if it does not cooperate fully with the International Criminal Court by handing over war-crimes suspects.
The UN has so far found 89 bodies in the disputed oil-rich Abyei region of Sudan from fighting that erupted last month, a UN official said on Monday.
A nuclear deal proposed by the major powers appeared on Sunday to have widened rifts among Iran’s ruling conservatives.
The spread of HIV in Mozambique has hit the economy and is heightening poverty, the United Nations chief representative in the country said on Friday.
The United Nations is not about to take any drastic steps to move refugees from xenophobic attacks to other countries, reports Imke van Hoorn.
The current climate in Zimbabwe was ”not at all” the proper one for an election, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday said it was cutting back its humanitarian air services in Sudan due to a -million funding shortfall.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday hailed the deal reached by Sudan and southern former rebels to end a dispute over the flashpoint oil-rich region of Abyei.
The United States and European Union plan a joint call for United Nations monitors to be sent to Zimbabwe after a human rights group alleged systematic government murder and brutality.
United Nations inspectors set to examine a Syrian site for signs of a secret nuclear reactor project may find little in part because of tardy intelligence-sharing by Washington.
A United Nations-led peace initiative for Somalia appears to have failed, with government and opposition delegations refusing to meet face-to-face in Djibouti to try to end 18 years of conflict.