The President of the General Assembly today encouraged the United Nations to honour Nelson Mandela “by letting his legacy live…
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26 December 2013 – The United Nations has voiced “extreme concern” that recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR)…
Control operations are continuing in Madagascar against an invasion of the Malagasy Migratory Locust, a voracious insect threatening rice and…
26 December 2013 – United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday helped the national armed…
Boosting productivity, fostering competitiveness and ensuring that small-scale farmers have greater access to markets are key to West Africa realizing…
26 December 2013 – The United Nations hopes to have peacekeeping reinforcements on the ground in strife-torn South Sudan within…
26 December 2013 – An independent United Nations expert today urged the Somali Government to finalize and carry out a…
25 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the deadly terrorist attack that took place on Tuesday on the…
25 December 2013 – In an appeal broadcast in South Sudan on Wednesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon renewed his call on…
24 December 2013 – The Security Council today authorized almost doubling the United Nations peacekeeping force in strife-torn South Sudan…
24 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia has renewed his call for a timely and credible…
24 December 2013 – The United Nations voiced increasing concern today for the security of 710,000 people uprooted by conflict…
24 December 2013 – Amid ethnically targeted killings, arbitrary detentions, rising displacement and now the discovery of mass graves, the…
23 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a crisis meeting of his top advisers on the deteriorating situation in…
23 December 2013 – Urgent national and international action is crucial to prevent the Central African Republic (CAR) from plunging…
23 December 2013 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up to…
23 December 2013 – Three Rome-based United Nations agencies are teaming up on a $2.7 million project to tackle the…
22 December 2013 – Amid escalating tensions and deadly clashes between military factions in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission…
21 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia congratulated Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, who was appointed…
VICTORIA, Mahe, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On December 19, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary…