9 June 2015 – Smallholder farmers in Uganda have made impressive progress in grain harvest and storage, thanks to a…
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9 June 2015 – Deeply worried at the increasingly violent and threatening actions by a pro-government militia in Burundi, the…
8 June 2015 – Ban appoints Senegalese national as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today…
8 June 2015 – Amid “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations,” the human rights situation in Eritrea has degenerated…
6 June 2015 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the readiness of President Abd Rabou Mansour Hadi of Yemen to…
6 June 2015 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed with relief the release of two United Nations-African Union Mission in…
5 June 2015 – Nothing in Piera Zuccherin’s comfortable upbringing foretold her lifelong involvement as a volunteer. But today, she…
5 June 2015 – An armed group opened fire on a convoy transporting Eritrean asylum-seekers in eastern Sudan and kidnapped…
5 June 2015 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced today that the next round of Libyan…
4 June 2015 – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has welcomed the…
14 May 2015 – The cholera outbreak in Haiti remains the largest in recent world history, according to the United…
15 May 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signature of a peace agreement between the Government…
15 May 2015 – The United Nations human rights chief has voiced concern over the developments in Burundi over the…
14 May 2015 – The security situation in South Sudan deteriorated further during late April and early May, the head…
14 May 2015 – The complexities and complications surrounding the plight of civilians in Iraq remain “enormous” amid slow political…
14 May 2015 – As the main planting season begins in South Sudan, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…
13 May 2015 – The top United Nations humanitarian official has welcomed the commencement of a ceasefire in Yemen aimed…
13 May 2015 – A United Nations human rights report released today says that a Uganda-based rebel group has committed…
12 May 2015 – The joint United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has strongly deplored “the rapid deterioration of…
9 May 2015 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission as forty-two days…