AP - Colombia's coca crop — the basis for cocaine — grew by 27 percent last year, the United Nations reported Wednesday, calling the increase "a surprise and a shock" given major U.S.-funded eradication efforts.
AP - A United Nations agency warned Wednesday of the need to help Myanmar's cyclone-stricken farmers plant rice for the next growing season but said the situation was better than originally feared.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Wednesday for the UN Security Council and African leaders to press Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe into holding free and fair elections.
Reuters - United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights Louise Arbour voiced concern on Wednesday over
"taboos" on discussion in a key U.N. forum of subjects that
Islamic countries see as offending their religion.
Reuters - A United Nations envoy met Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday to discuss the political
crisis and the violence marring campaigning for this month's
presidential election run-off.
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met a top United Nations official Tuesday, a source close to the UN said, ahead of a run-off poll that rights groups and Western powers say is tainted by violence.
AP - The U.S. presidential envoy to Sudan's troubled Darfur region joined activists Tuesday in blaming the world for failing to protect residents of the African nation from widespread violence.
AFP - Pilot error was to blame for the crash of a United Nations helicopter in Nepal in March which killed 10 people, an investigating official said Wednesday.
Reuters - The United Nations is expected to name
Italian diplomat Lamberto Zannier this week as the new head of
its Kosovo mission, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. -- read full article
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AFP - Senior UN official Haile Menkerios met with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in Harare on Tuesday ahead of a run-off presidential poll, said a source close to the United Nations.
Reuters - A United Nations envoy met Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday to discuss the violent
political crisis ahead of this month's presidential election
run-off.
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met a top United Nations official Tuesday, a source close to the UN said, 10 days before a run-off election that rights groups and Western powers say is tainted by violence.
AP - The U.N. Security Council called Monday on Sudan to arrest and hand over two Darfur war crimes suspects for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
AFP - Rebel forces claimed to have seized another city in eastern Chad Monday, as the United Nations condemned the deteriorating security situation and the US began to evacuate staff.
