Nick Cumming-Bruce
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 06:47
The number of people displaced by fighting between Muslim and Christian militias and vigilantes in the Central African Republic has more than doubled in the past month, and increasing violence is making it harder to deliver humanitarian relief, the United Nations warned on Friday.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:27
Senior officials of the United Nations, the United States and Russia began a series of meetings in Geneva on Friday to review prospects for a second international conference aimed at ending the fighting and ushering in a political transition in Syria.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 08:58
Severe government abuse, not harsh living conditions, is driving thousands of Eritreans to flee their country every month and risk their lives trying, often by precarious means, to reach other countries, a United Nations investigator said Monday.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 07:52
Senior officials from six world powers met Wednesday in Geneva in a new bid to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear program despite opposition from Israel, some members of the United States Congress and Iranian hard-liners.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:33
The organization said Sunday that inspectors would complete destruction of equipment for mixing chemicals and filling weapons by the start of November, an important milestone.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:47
“It is of the greatest importance that that document be complete,” a senior State Department official said this month.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 08:30
The new mission to dispose of Syria’s chemical arsenal will begin by verifying its size and components.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 09:08
But diplomats attending the council said an immediate aim was to increase pressure on Syria to allow the access it has so far denied to members of the two-year old Commission of Inquiry monitoring human rights violations.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 06:30
A senior Obama administration official said Friday that the United States was encouraged by the initial inventory that the Syrian government had submitted of its chemical weapons arsenal.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 08:19
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, said Wednesday that the organization was responsible for a “collective failure” to halt more than two years of atrocious violence in Syria.