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SUDAN: Urgent political action needed to stem Darfur crisis - Concern International

UN Peace News - 3 hours 32 min ago
The humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur will deteriorate this year unless key political decisions involving the government, the Darfurian rebel groups and the international community are urgently taken, an international nongovernmental organisation working in the war-torn region warned on Friday.
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COTE D IVOIRE: "Insecurity reigns" after border attack

UN Peace News - 3 hours 32 min ago
The main border post between Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana remained closed on Monday, three days after an armed attack that claimed at least five lives and left several people wounded.
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SENEGAL: Rebel leader is dead but peace process may stay alive

UN Peace News - 3 hours 32 min ago
With the death on Sunday of Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, a Roman Catholic priest who lead a separatist movement in the southern Casamance region of Senegal, mediators and experts on the conflict have diverging opinions about how it may effect the on-going peace process.
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-CHAD: UN Security Council pursues UN force option

UN Peace News - 3 hours 32 min ago
United Nations Security Council members emerged from a lengthy meeting on Chad, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Darfur on Wednesday, agreeing by consensus to send a new technical assessment mission to Chad and CAR “as quickly as possible” according to current Council president, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Former prime minister seeks refuge with UN

UN Peace News - 3 hours 32 min ago
Less than a week after a previous head of Guinea-Bissau's navy was assassinated, a former prime minister has taken refuge at the United Nations compound in the capital, Bissau, after the government issued a warrant for his arrest.
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AFGHANISTAN: UN rejects landmines along border

UN Peace News - 3 hours 32 min ago
The United Nations has rejected a recent decision by the Pakistani government to fence and mine in 'selected places' its 2,400 km border with Afghanistan to prevent cross-border militancy.
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African leaders support agribusiness development plan at UN-backed conference

UN Africa - 12 hours 2 min ago
High-level representatives from 44 African countries wrapped up a United Nations-backed conference in Nigeria today with the approval of an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food security across the continent through agribusiness.
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African leaders support agribusiness development plan at UN-backed conference

UN Africa - 12 hours 2 min ago
High-level representatives from 44 African countries wrapped up a United Nations-backed conference in Nigeria today with the approval of an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food security across the continent through agribusiness.
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UN and aid partners call for $60 million to help 110,000 Congolese refugees

UN Africa - Tue, 09/03/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations and its partners today launched an appeal for just under $60 million to help more than 100,000 refugees from the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who have fled ethnic violence and are seeking refuge in neighbouring Republic of Congo (ROC).
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West African farmers receive boost from UN organic food exporting initiative

UN Africa - Tue, 09/03/2010 - 7:00am
Some 5,000 West African farmers are reaping the rewards from a United Nations scheme aimed at helping them export produce to the growing organic food market in the industrialized world.
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West African farmers receive boost from UN organic food exporting initiative

UN Africa - Tue, 09/03/2010 - 7:00am
Some 5,000 West African farmers are reaping the rewards from a United Nations scheme aimed at helping them export produce to the growing organic food market in the industrialized world.
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UN rights chief calls for new approach to end cycle of violence in Nigeria

UN Africa - Tue, 09/03/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations human rights chief said today she was appalled by the latest "massacre" of hundreds of villagers in northern Nigeria, and called for authorities to tackle the underlying causes of the tension in the region.
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UN dispatches relief aid to Uganda for victims of deadly mudslide disaster

UN Africa - Mon, 08/03/2010 - 7:00am
United Nations aid agencies are continuing emergency relief efforts for thousands of victims of last week's devastating mudslides in eastern Uganda, which has left at least 83 dead and authorities still unable to account for more than 300 others.
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ICC postpones trial of former Congolese leader charged with war crimes

UN Africa - Mon, 08/03/2010 - 7:00am
The International Criminal Court (ICC) today announced it is pushing back the start date of the trial of a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged with war crimes.
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Chad: UN boosts efforts to tackle food insecurity

UN Africa - Mon, 08/03/2010 - 7:00am
United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, the world body said today.
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UN chief appeals for restraint amid more inter-religious strife in Nigeria

UN Africa - Mon, 08/03/2010 - 7:00am
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his concern about the situation in the Nigerian city of Jos, where inter-religious violence has once again taken a deadly toll, and called for all sides to exercise maximum restraint.
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Missing UN-African Union soldiers make safe return thanks to local Darfurians

UN Africa - Sun, 07/03/2010 - 7:00am
Two peacekeepers who were missing after an attack on an African Union-United Nations patrol in Darfur have made a safe return with the assistance of the local population, the joint mission reported today.
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Secretary-General calls for calm in post-election Togo

UN Africa - Sun, 07/03/2010 - 7:00am
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for calm in Togo, where the provisional results of the 4 March presidential election were announced on Saturday, and for any grievances to be resolved through the proper channels.
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Darfur: two peacekeepers missing after ambush on UN-African Union patrol

UN Africa - Sat, 06/03/2010 - 7:00am
A search is underway for two peacekeepers missing after an ambush on a joint African Union-United Nations patrol in an area of Darfur that has been the scene of recent clashes.
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UN and partners kick off massive anti-polio drive in West and Central Africa

UN Africa - Sat, 06/03/2010 - 7:00am
United Nations agencies and their partners today launched a polio immunization campaign targeting 85 million children under the age of five in 19 countries across West and Central Africa.
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