United Nations

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 07:52
The UN struggles to move nearly eighty thousand refugees from one of its bases after a coup attempt in December.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 07:44
In a bid to save lives, aid organizations in the Central African Republic (CAR) are planning what is set to be their first attempt to resettle a Muslim community within the country rather than outside it.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:47
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay on Tuesday said that he will start a visit to the Central African Republic on human rights issues.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:45
For the first time, an armed UN mission is employing drones to keep the peace. In the past three months two Italian-made, snub-nosed craft with the UN logo painted on their sides have been taking off from Goma in eastern Congo to scan rebel-infested hill regions with high-tech cameras.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:43
Muslim and Christian leaders of the Central African Republic pleaded Friday for the U.N. Security Council to hurry and deploy peacekeepers to a country that’s been ripped apart by unprecedented sectarian violence.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:32
On 12 March, the United Nations Security Council was briefed by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous, and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) and Special Representative to the African Union Haile Menkerios on the situation in Sudan and South Sudan under resolution 2046 (2012) and on the situation in Abyei.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:24
UN and government forces attack Rwandan Hutu rebels based in DR Congo's eastern borderlands.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:09
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says it is in the process of relocating civilians displaced amid the recent conflict to better shelter ahead of coming rains.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:00
Mr Martin Kobler, has urged the international community and the Congolese government to adopt concrete measures that would build on the current stability in the country.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:28
United Nations human rights investigators have added to their list of suspected war criminals from both sides in the Syrian civil war after a new round of atrocities in recent weeks, its head said on Tuesday.

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