The Green Revolution that jump-started Asia’s agricultural growth has not been mirrored in the African continent.
Alpha Oumar Konare, chairperson of the African Union Commission, says it is "scandalous" to spend $2-billion annually on the upkeep of a proposed 26Â 000-strong joint AU-United…
As the international community reaches the midpoint between the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 and the target date of 2015, the United Nations on…
The legitimacy of a much-ballyhooed Security Council meeting on climate change has been challenged by developing nations that argue that the threat to the global environment is…
When United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon took office in January, he made a public commitment to revamp the UN secretariat, inculcate high ethical standards and make his…
A coalition of more than 140 international NGOs and women’s groups is gratified that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is expressing public support for the creation of…
The torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad and the wilful abuse and humiliation of terror suspects in the United States detention facility in…
When former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan criticised the United States military invasion of Iraq as an "illegal" act, he was blasted by right-wing neo-conservatives…
Less than six weeks before he steps down as Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has come up with a political scorecard on the successes and failures of the UN’s…
The United Nations says that international aid work is one of the world’s most hazardous professions, in which humanitarian workers are constantly threatened with — or victims of…
The United Nations, which is struggling to redeem its public image over charges of nepotism and mismanagement in its $64-billion now-defunct Oil-for-Food Programme in Iraq, has…
The United Nations is trying to transform one of the most politically unstable countries in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), into a multiparty democracy with…
