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UN environment agency backs action to regulate e-waste in Kenya

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
Kenya is set to become the first East African nation to regulate the management of electronic waste, also known as "e-waste", following a conference run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Secretary-General concludes visit to Rwanda to discuss human rights report

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today concluded a visit to Rwanda during which he spoke with President Paul Kagame and other Government officials about their concerns regarding the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) human rights report compiled by the United Nations.
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UN mission in DR Congo prolongs special patrols to deter attacks against civilians

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today said it was extending by another week an operation designed to enhance the protection of civilians in the eastern areas of the country where members of illegal armed groups raped some 240 people recently.
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Liberia: UN envoy says further progress needed to consolidate fragile peace

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
While the overall security situation in Liberia is stable, it also continues to be fragile, and further progress is needed in a number of areas to truly consolidate the peace, the top United Nations envoy to the West African nation said today.
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Distribution of key school supplies starts in Zimbabwe with UN and donor support

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
A major distribution of school supplies got under way today across Zimbabwe in an effort by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Government and international donors to ensure that every primary school student receives a textbook for all core subjects.
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UN health agency reports on spread of polio outbreak in Angola and DR Congo

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that the recent outbreak of polio in Angola is spreading into other, previously polio-free parts of the country and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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UN welcomes agreement on final voters' list in Côte d'Ivoire

UN Africa - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 7:00am
The agreement reached on the final list of voters for next month's long-delayed presidential polls signals a major breakthrough in Côte d'Ivoire's electoral process, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the West African nation said today.
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UN outlines steps to boost civilian protection in DR Congo in wake of mass rapes

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken several measures to improve the protection of civilians in the east of the country following the recent incidents of mass rape, but establishing State authority in conflict-affected areas would be the most effective way to end lawlessness and violence, a senior UN official said today.
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Ban arrives in Rwanda to discuss upcoming report on DR Congo rights violations

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived today in Kigali, where he plans to meet with Rwandan leaders to discuss the soon-to-be-released United Nations report on serious human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003.
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UN salutes Cape Verde's full ownership of free school meals programme

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
Cape Verde's Government took full ownership of its free meals programme for schoolchildren today after more than three decades of collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), with the United Nations agency voicing hope that it will set an example for other developing countries to follow.
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Fresh clashes in Darfur kill dozens of civilians, UN-African Union mission reports

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
More than 50 people have been killed and many more have been injured in clashes in Darfur amid rising tensions in the troubled region of western Sudan, the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force reports.
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UN refugee agency alarmed at civilian loss of life in Somalia's capital

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced alarm over worsening security in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where fighting between forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and armed Islamists has killed more than 230 civilians and wounded at least 400 others during the past two weeks.
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UNICEF launches hygiene awareness campaign to help combat cholera in Cameroon

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has begun a public awareness campaign about hygiene at primary schools across northern Cameroon in a bid to stem an outbreak of cholera that has killed hundreds of people.
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UN agencies launch appeal to assist flood victims in Burkina Faso

UN Africa - Tue, 07/09/2010 - 7:00am
United Nations aid agencies and their partners today launched an appeal for more than $14 million to help the victims of flooding in Burkina Faso rebuild their homes and livelihoods over the next six month.
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SUDAN: Urgent political action needed to stem Darfur crisis - Concern International

UN Peace News - Mon, 06/09/2010 - 2:01pm
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 - Mon, 06/09/2010 - 2:01pm
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 - Mon, 06/09/2010 - 2:01pm
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 - Mon, 06/09/2010 - 2:01pm
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 - Mon, 06/09/2010 - 2:01pm
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 - Mon, 06/09/2010 - 2:01pm
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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