New York - The UN Security Council discussed Wednesday ways to improve cooperation with the African Union after a study showed that peace still does not exist in many parts of Africa despite the deployment of largescale UN peacekeeping operations.
"From the Horn to the Great Lakes to West Africa, conflict is endemic," said the study by a six-member panel headed by former Italian Prime Minister and European Union statesman Romano Prodi.
New York - An ambush in Sudan's Darfur that led to the death of one peacekeeper was condemned Tuesday by the United Nations- African Union mission in the strife-torn western Sudanese region.
"The UN-AU mission in Darfur strongly condemns these cowardly acts of violence against its peacekeepers and calls on all parties including the government of Sudan to ensure the safety of UN personnel in the region," United Nations spokeswoman Marie Okabe said from UN headquarters in New York.
Nairobi/Mogadishu/New York - Gunmen late Monday in Somalia released four United Nations relief workers - three foreigners and one local staffer - after a brief abduction, the UN said.
Marie Okabe, a spokeswoman at UN headquarters in New York, said that the four were released following a brief detention by the armed kidnappers. No details were provided.
New York - An inquiry into damage inflicted to UN properties and people who may have been killed there during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is expected to be completed later this month, a UN spokeswoman said Monday.
The investigation by the UN board of inquiry was ordered by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon after the UN suffered extensive damage to its offices and schools for Palestinian children in Gaza as a result of Israeli airstrikes.
Geneva - North Korea's implementation of human rights was "grim, and the situation remains dire and desperate," a special United Nations expert on the isolated country said Monday, calling for immediate policy changes to ameliorate food shortages.
Some 8.7 million people, of an estimated population of 23 million, were deemed to be food insecure, UN studies have shown, but only 1.8 million were receiving food assistance, mostly through the World Food Programme.
Nairobi/Khartoum - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday said that he wanted all international aid organizations to cease operations in Sudan within a year as the fall-out from his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) continued.
Sudan earlier this month expelled 13 organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, after the ICC issued an arrest warrant on al-Bashir for alleged war crimes.
Most of the agencies were banished from the conflict-hit Darfur province.
New York - The UN Security Council discussed Wednesday ways to improve cooperation with the African Union after a study showed that peace still does not exist in many parts of Africa despite the deployment of largescale UN peacekeeping operations.
New York - An ambush in Sudan's Darfur that led to the death of one peacekeeper was condemned Tuesday by the United Nations- African Union mission in the strife-torn western Sudanese region.
Nairobi/Mogadishu/New York - Gunmen late Monday in Somalia released four United Nations relief workers - three foreigners and one local staffer - after a brief abduction, the UN said.
New York - An inquiry into damage inflicted to UN properties and people who may have been killed there during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is expected to be completed later this month, a UN spokeswoman said Monday.
Geneva - North Korea's implementation of human rights was "grim, and the situation remains dire and desperate," a special United Nations expert on the isolated country said Monday, calling for immediate policy changes to ameliorate food shortages.
Nairobi/Khartoum - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday said that he wanted all international aid organizations to cease operations in Sudan within a year as the fall-out from his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) continued.
