The United Nations is encouraging its staff members to make voluntary contributions to support the victims of the Storm Sandy which devastated parts of New York. UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky told reporters on Wednesday that many of the UN's own staff members were severely affected by the storm. He says that the Secretary-General and [...]
More than 70,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon are getting food assistance from the World Food Programme, according to the head of the agency Ertharin Cousin. Ms. Cousin spoke in Beirut on Wednesday at the end of her visit to Lebanon on the first stop of a three-day regional trip to see first-hand the increasing humanitarian [...]
Six trade unions in the state of Tamil Nadu in India have banded together to eliminate child labour. In one district alone, they have removed nearly 100 youngsters working in auto and motorcycle repair shops and placed them where they belong: back in school. Dianne Penn reports Duration: 2’40″
There have been differences in the Security Council on what has to be done to help the transitional government of Somalia, according to the Deputy Representative of South Africa to the United Nations. Doctor Mashabane spoke to reporters on Wednesday after the Council adopted a resolution authorizing the extension of the African Union Mission [...]
The international community has been urged to help the government of Libya combat impunity and reinforce a culture of the rule of law. The appeal has come from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, who presented her report to the Security Council on Wednesday. She told the Council that the government [...]
The Security Council has decided to authorize the African Union to maintain the deployment of its mission in Somalia (AMISOM) until 7 March next year. The Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Wednesday which, among other things, allows AMISOM to take all necessary measures to reduce the threat of Al-Shabaab insurgents and other armed groups [...]
An operation to airlift South Sudanese from the Sudanese capital Khartoum back to South Sudan started on Tuesday this week. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) hopes that at the end of the two-week operation, 1,300 people it says are the most vulnerable will have returned to South Sudan. They are among approximately 40,000 people [...]
The death toll from the yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Dafur region has risen to 67 according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak which was first reported in October has now affected 17 localities in Central, South, West and North Darfur. Patrick Maigua reports. The World Health Organization says the number of suspected [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warmly congratulated President Barack Obama on his re-election as President of the United States. A statement issued by his spokesperson on Wednesday says the Secretary-General is looking forward to continuing to work with President Obama and his administration. Charles Appel reports. The Secretary-General says that working with President Obama [...]
Deforestation is depriving Kenya of millions of dollars a year, according to a report issued on Monday. The report has been jointly compiled by the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). To find out more about the report and the problem of deforestation in Kenya, Derrick Mbatha spoke on the [...]
