AP - Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and other members of Nelson Mandela's global crisis task force turned their attention to world hunger on Wednesday, focusing on soaring food prices.
AP - African envoys sought support Wednesday from Russia and China for ways of letting Sudan's president dodge a global court prosecutor's Darfur war crimes charges.
AP - The United Nations blamed the increasing price of food and fuel worldwide for a shortfall in emergency humanitarian aid of more than $3 billion for 34 nations.
OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 (OneWorld) - Several pressure groups campaigning for peace in the troubled region of Darfur are welcoming Monday's move toward indicting Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir for genocide and war crimes. -- read full article
Reuters - A U.N.-African Union peacekeeper was
shot and killed in Sudan's western Darfur region, a week after
militiamen killed seven peacekeepers, a U.N. spokeswoman said
on Wednesday. -- read full article
AFP - The United Nations on Tuesday issued fresh protests after gunmen killed a transport agent working for the World Food Programme in Somalia, where millions of people are on the brink of starvation.
AFP - Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday named the KGB security service chief as head of the former Soviet republic's security council, less than two weeks after a bomb explosion injured dozens.
AP - Britain is urging the U.N. Security Council to condemn as a possible war crime an ambush last week that killed or injured more than two dozen peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region. -- read full article
AFP - The government late on Tuesday circulated a statement in the UN Security Council that would slam as "an unacceptable act" last week's ambush killing of seven international peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region.
AP - Myanmar is inviting a United Nations special envoy to visit in mid-August, for talks that are expected to focus on international efforts to bring political reforms to the Southeast Asian nation. -- read full article
AFP - The UN was pulling non-essential staff from Darfur as protesters rallied behind Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Tuesday over allegations he masterminded a campaign of genocide in the region.
Reuters - The United Nations urged hundreds of
staff to stay at home on Tuesday as crowds of Sudanese
protested against war crimes charges leveled against their
president by an international prosecutor.
Reuters - The killing and kidnapping of aid
workers in Somalia threatens to wreck all attempts to resolve a
humanitarian disaster that could soon rival its famine in the
early 1990s, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
AP - President Bush said Tuesday that the United States is looking at ways to punish Zimbabwean leaders after China and Russia blocked sanctions at the United Nations last week.
