About 200,000 children under the age of five could die from severe malnutrition in Somalia by the end of the year, unless the United Nations receives emergency funds to stave off mass hunger, UN officials have said. Only $15m has been received against the appeal by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)...

Nairobi, Kenya - A confidential UN report alleges that Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, his former foreign minister and an American law firm conspired to steal public funds by engaging in secret contracts that gave them hefty percentages from the country's recovered overseas assets.

Geneva - South Sudanese refugees have poured into neighbouring Ethiopia over the past three days to flee fighting in their homeland, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for refugees, said that over 11 000 people had crossed into Ethiopia in t...

ကုလသမ္မဂ(UN)၊ဥရောပသမဂ္ဂ(EU)နှင့်အခြားနိုင်ငံ(၅)နိုင်ငံမှကိုယ်စားလှယ်များသည်အစိုးရ၊တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့ အစည်း(EAO)ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ၏တနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးစာချုပ်(NCA)ကိုလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရာတွင်အသိသက် သေပြုလုပ်ပေးမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များ(EAOs)မှအောက်တိုဘာတ...

The United Nations has called on the authorities to allow more humanitarian access to the conflict zone in central Shan State, where local aid workers say about 7000 people have fled fighting and air strikes by the Tatmadaw. A spokesperson in New York for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in ...

A Guiné-Bissau está a receber cidadãos da Gâmbia que fogem à tensa situação política no país. Os cidadãos gambianos estão a dirigir-se para Bissau e algumas cidades no interior, temendo o eclodir de um conflito no país, onde o presidente cessante, Yahya Jammeh, recusou abandonar o poder após a sua d...

A l’abri de la rue, au fond de l’échoppe, une liasse de billets change de main. Ali Djara Zene soupire. Sa journée est sauvée. Quand il a flairé le client, le patron de la boutique Fashion Wear a d’abord attendu, laissant tâter l’étoffe, observer le tomber d’une veste ; puis, au moment opportun, il ...

Depuis début juillet les regards sont tournés vers la région de Kidal où les groupes armés, la Coordination des mouvements de l’Azawad (CMA) et le Groupe d’Autodéfense Imghad et Alliés (GATIA), foulent au pied allègrement l’Accord pour la paix et la réconciliation au Mali auquel ils ont adhéré il y ...

Le nouveau Représentant du Haut-commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les réfugiés(HCR) au Tchad, Mbili Ambaoumba, a présenté ses lettres de cabinet aux autorités tchadiennes. Accompagné de son Représentant Adjoint M. Edward O’Dwyer, le nouveau Représentant a remis officiellement la lettre d’accréd...

(New York) – A planned reduction of peacekeeping troops in Darfur risks leaving civilians without much-needed protection in the face of continued violence, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations Security Council, which has to renew the mandate for the African Union/United Nations peace...