Football players from across East and Central Africa will gather in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on September 21 and 22 to take part in the finals of the Great Lakes Peace Cup, a tournament organized to help former combatants – many of them abducted child soldiers – become part of their communities through the [...]
North Koreans lost almost 40 per cent of their spring harvest to drought. Now floods threaten the main autumn crop, as well as washing away buildings, bridges, dams and roads. WFP
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (19 September) told reporters he would use the upcoming high-level General Assembly session to personally press more than 120 world leaders to act on Syria. UNTV
For the first time since the Security Council held its first open debate on children and armed conflict in 1999, a resolution on the issue was adopted today (19 September) without full support from the Council. UNTV
During a recent fact-finding trip to Mogadishu, Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support, Tony Banbury and the Director of the UN support office to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Amadu Kamara travelled through the city in armoured personnel carriers to assess the situation on the ground. AMISOM / UNPOS
Somali women came together last Sunday (16 September) in an "Open Day Partnerships for Peace," event, – part of a global program to promote the idea that women are among the main victims of conflict, and should therefore be important participants in any peace process. UNPOS
Bahrain today (19 September) accepted 145 of 176 recommendations made in the Human Rights Council’s review last May of the Bahraini human rights situation where they faced sharp criticism of its handling of civil unrest and the alleged suppression of free expression. CH UNTV