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Violence against civilians surges in Afghanistan after peace talks: UN report

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Civilian casualties in Afghanistan escalated sharply after peace talks began last year, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday, calling for...

Blackwater founder Erik Prince accused of helping evade UN Libya sanctions

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Erik Prince, the private security executive and supporter of former US President Donald Trump, “at the very least” helped evade an arms embargo on...

Violence still raging in South Sudan despite peace deal: UN

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Violence is still raging in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end a civil war that...

Uganda security personnel beat journalists covering rights abuse petition

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Ugandan military and police officers beat and seriously injured journalists on Wednesday as they covered the delivery of a petition about human rights violations...

Suspected Islamists kill 16 in eastern Congo attack

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Suspected Islamists killed three soldiers and 13 civilians and burnt down a church in a raid on a village in Democratic Republic of Congo’s...

Twenty UN peacekeepers injured in central Mali attack

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Twenty United Nations peacekeepers were injured, including several seriously, in central Mali on Wednesday when their base came under fire, a UN mission spokesman...

UN experts point finger at North Korea for $281 million cyber...

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A preliminary United Nations inquiry into the theft of $281 million worth of assets from a cryptocurrency exchange last September “strongly suggests” links to...

US says returning to “flawed” UN human rights forum

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The United States said on Monday it would return as an observer to the UN Human Rights Council, which it quit under the Trump...

Libya power brokers welcome accord but challenges lie ahead

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Libya’s parallel eastern administration welcomed Friday’s announcement of a new interim government to unite the country, but added it would only cede power if...

UN official warns of high risk of atrocities in Ethiopia

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A senior United Nations official warned on Friday that “the risk of atrocity crimes in Ethiopia remains high and likely to get worse” if...

Libya talks’ participants to vote on new interim government

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Participants in talks on Libya’s political future were preparing for a ballot on Friday morning to select a new interim government, part of a...

UN warns Tigray conflict could spark broader destablization in Ethiopia

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A conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could trigger broader destablization in the country, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council on Wednesday...

Militant killings more than doubled in Congo in 2020, UN says

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Killings by armed groups in the Democratic Repubic of Congo more than doubled last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, underlining spiralling violence...

Refugee resettlement hits 20-year low amid pandemic, US cuts – UN

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Barely 1.6% of 1.44 million people with refugee status who were prioritised for resettlement in another country of asylum last year found new homelands...

UN sets dates for Libyan transitional government selection

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The United Nations Libya mission said on Thursday that nominations for leadership of a new unified transitional government must be made within a week...

43 Africans drown off Libya in first Mediterranean shipwreck of 2021...

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At least 43 West African migrants trying to reach Europe drowned off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, after their boat capsized in rough...

Factional risks hover as Libya’s UN peace process advances

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Libyans working under a UN peace process on Tuesday agreed a mechanism to choose a new temporary government to oversee the run-up to elections...

US exempts UN, aid groups from effort to cut off Yemen’s...

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The United States on Tuesday exempted aid groups, the United Nations, the Red Cross and the export of agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices...

Violence create food crisis in northern Mozambique- WFP

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Militant attacks that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have created a humanitarian...

UN Security Council approves new UN Libya mediator

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The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the UN Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a...

UN calls for probe into Cameroon army attack on civilians

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The United Nations on Thursday called for an investigation after Reuters reported that Cameroonian soldiers opened fire on fleeing civilians during a weekend raid,...

Major violations of international law at Tigray refugee camps: UN

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There have been major violations of international law at two refugee camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said on...

UN chief Guterres tries again to appoint a Libya mediator

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to appoint veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as his envoy in Libya nearly a year after the last mediator stepped...

Bullets and panic: rebels attack Central African Republic capital

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Rebels in Central African Republic attacked the capital early on Wednesday, but were repelled by President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s security forces and United Nations peacekeepers,...

Four UN peacekeepers killed, five wounded in Mali attack

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Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five wounded in central Mali on Wednesday after a convoy struck an explosive device and came under...

Rebels attack Central African Republic’s capital, says PM

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Security forces in Central African Republic repelled an attack on Wednesday by armed groups seeking to seize the capital Bangui, athorities said, in a...

ISS: CAR elections expose the depth of the country’s crisis

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Is more robust engagement needed to neutralise armed groups unwilling to give peace a chance? On 27 December 2020, citizens of the Central African Republic...

Almost 2.3 million people need aid in Ethiopia’s Tigray – UN...

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Fighting is still going on in several parts of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and almost 2.3 million people, or nearly half of the population,...

At least 13 dead as suicide bomber, gunmen attack town in...

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At least 13 people including children died when a suicide bomber blew herself in a crowd that was fleeing an armed attack in northern...

UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests

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United Nations human rights experts called on Uganda on Tuesday to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and activists...

UN agency says more than 400 000 flee Mozambique militant attacks

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At least 400 000 people have fled militant attacks in northern Mozambique, the United Nations refugee agency said, warning that the crisis could quickly...

Ethiopia shifts focus from war to economy, UN worries about Tigray

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Ethiopia’s prime minister shifted focus away from war on Wednesday, opening a cross-border highway to Kenya at the opposite end of his country, while...

Ethiopia says UN team shot at in Tigray after defying checkpoints

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A United Nations team visiting refugees in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region had failed to stop at two checkpoints when it was shot at over...

Anti-tank missile in Libya looks like Iran-produced weapon – UN

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A United Nations analysis of photos of four anti-tank guided missiles in Libya found that one “had characteristics consistent with the Iranian-produced Dehlavieh” missile,...

MONUSCO withdrawal “tailored” to provincial security needs

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The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has closed nine field offices since peaceful transfer of power in the 2018 presidential...

UN warned against rushed MONUSCO exit

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Speaking on behalf of the A3+1 group in the UN Security Council, South Africa’s senior representative at the world body warned against “a budget-driven...

Ethiopia scorns guerrilla war fears, UN team shot at in Tigray

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Ethiopia’s government denied on Monday that northern forces whom its troops have fought for a month would be able to mount a guerrilla insurgency,...

UN panel says South Sudan blocking its missions to violence-hit areas

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Implementation of South Sudan’s 2018 peace accord has stalled and authorities have blocked humanitarian access to areas where conflict has restarted, the UN panel...

UN warns child labor, trafficking on the rise in troubled Mali

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More children have been trafficked, forced to work in gold mines and to fight as soldiers in Mali this year as conflict worsened and...

UN Security Council unlikely to act on Iran scientist killing, diplomats...

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Just hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action...

SA assumes presidency of UNSC

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South Africa is today assuming the rotating monthly presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). “This will be South Africa’s second Presidency during its...

Refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray set to run out of food: UN

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Nearly 100 000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region will run out of food as early as next week if parties to the conflict...

UN alarmed at military build-up around Tigray capital

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The United Nations human rights chief voiced alarm on Tuesday at reports of a heavy build-up of tanks and artillery around the Tigrayan regional...

UN, several countries denounce arrests of Egyptian activists

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The UN human rights office, the United States and several European countries on Friday criticised the arrest of three members of a prominent Egyptian...

Russia stops UN blacklisting of Libya militia, leader

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Russia on Friday stopped a UN Security Council committee from blacklisting a Libyan militia group and its leader for human rights abuses because it...

UN aid agencies call for ceasefire in Ethiopia, seek $200 million...

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United Nations aid agencies called on Friday for an immediate temporary ceasefire in Ethiopia and the setting up of humanitarian corridors that would enable...

UN plans for 200 000 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan

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UN agencies are planning for the possible arrival of 200 000 refugees in Sudan fleeing violence in Ethiopia over a six-month period, UN officials...

Commitment is crucial to strengthen Security Council

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Highlighting the importance of the UN Security Council in addressing peace and security challenges in an increasingly complex world, the President of the General...

Army patrol discovers 29 bodies in eastern Congo

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A military patrol has discovered 29 bodies in a region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where civilians are facing a sharp rise in...

‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia: UN

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A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, with more than 27 000 people now having...