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New York, Nov 2 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced Friday they are teaming up for a trip to the Sahel next week to address pressing issues in the vast African region such as pervasive poverty, food insecurity and conflict. more
UN agency provides food to record number of Syrians

New York, Nov 2 (JEN): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that it is reaching close to 3.3 million people in Syria – a record for its operations – but many are still wit ...

UN concerned over renewed clashes in Lebanon

New York, Nov 1 (JEN): The top United Nations envoy in Lebanon Thursday expressed serious concern over the recurrence of armed clashes in the city of Tripoli, and stressed the need for a lo ...

UN reduces food rations for refugees in northern Kenya

New York, Nov 1 (JEN): Two United Nations humanitarian agencies announced Thursday that they will be forced to reduce food rations for more than half a million refugees in the Dadaab and Ka ...

Syria renders chemical weapons facilities inoperable: UN

New York, Nov 1 (JEN): Syria’s chemical weapons facilities are “inoperable,” the Joint Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nation ...

UN warns against settlements in occupied territories

New York, Oct 31 (JEN): An independent United Nations human rights expert Wednesday warned that financial institutions and real estate companies involved with housing settlements in occupi ...

UN envoy meets Syrian President in Damascus

New York, Oct 31 (IBNS): The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Lakhdar Brahimi, Wednesday met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damas ...

Ban deplores plans for Israeli settlements in Palestine

New York, Oct 31 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the announcements Wednesday of further Israeli settlement plans in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem ...

UN warns against forced returns to northeast Nigeria

New York, Oct 30 (JEN): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is calling on States to keep their borders open for Nigerians fleeing the escalating violence in their count ...

DR Congo: UN on high alert following clash with armed groups

New York, Oct 26 (JEN): The United Nations stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on “high alert” following early morning clashes between Congolese Govern ...