More than 435,000 people have been displaced in Mali due to conflict and food insecurity, says a new report from OCHA, the UN relief agency. According to the report, released on Wednesday, the country is facing a complex humanitarian emergency. Gerry Adams reports: The report, produced by the UN Office for the Coordination of [...]
• A peacekeeper with the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was killed last Sunday. Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the mission's community policing centre inside the Otash camp for internally displaced people in Nyala, South Darfur. The Security Council has strongly condemned this attack and urged the Sudanese government to swiftly investigate it [...]
The mandate of United Nations military observers in Syria will not be renewed when it ends on 19 August. The Security Council met in New York on Thursday to discuss the future of the mission known as UNSMIS. Meanwhile, Valerie Amos the head of the United Nations humanitarian agency wrapped up her visit to Syria. [...]
Russia is sorry that the mandate of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) is coming to an end, said the country's representative to the United Nations. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin spoke to reporters on Thursday following consultations of the Security Council in which Russia has a veto power. He said Russia is looking forward to [...]
United Nations military observers in Syria will not continue their mission when their mandate ends on 19 August. The announcement was made by the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Gérard Araud of France, on Thursday. Security Council diplomats met behind closed door to discuss the future of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria [...]
Bhutanese families in refugee camps in Nepal are being counselled by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) so that they can decide to be resettled in another country or remain in refugee camps. UNHCR says that many Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal are conflicted because they wish to return to Bhutan. Gerry Adams reports. The United [...]
Abeline Razanamamy is an elderly widow living in central Madagascar. She is determined not to rely on anybody else for her survival. She’s maintained her independence by growing rice… a lot of rice. She applies a technique called the System for Rice Intensification, or SRI, which has more than doubled her yield. Developed in Madagascar [...]
Education is at the heart of development, according to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who on Thursday concluded a two-day mission to Timor-Leste. Mr. Ban unveiled a new global initiative which aims to improve the quality of education and to put all children in school. He was joined by Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UN Educational, [...]
Syrian authorities are reluctant to allow more international non-governmental organization to provide humanitarian assistance to the needy people in the conflict-torn country. That's what has been said by the United Nations humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos who concluded her three-day visit to Syria and Lebanon on Thursday. Ms. Amos told reporters in the Syrian capital, Damascus [...]
The sale and sexual exploitation of children will be the focus of a country mission to Guatemala by a UN human rights expert. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Najat Maalla M'jid, is visiting the Central American country from the 20th to the 29th of August. She [...]
The world is not on track to provide education for all by 2015, according to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Mr. Ban, who is visiting Timor Leste, told university students in Dili, the capital, that globally there are 775 million illiterate adults and 61 million children out of primary school. He added that less than [...]
