WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered sanctions Tuesday against five people tied to sectarian violence in the Central African Republic and cleared the way...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New fighting broke out in South Sudan on Sunday less than 48 hours after the country’s president and...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Confronting global fears of genocide, South Sudan’s president tentatively agreed Friday to revitalize peace talks...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million people in South Sudan have fled their homes at a crucial time of...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rainy season is about to start in South Sudan, but war in the world’s newest country has...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian rights group is urging the United Nations to help secure the release of some 230 schoolgirls abducted by extremists...
PARIS (AP) — A study by the U.N. education agency says cellphones are getting more and more people to read in countries where books are...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The top United Nations envoy to Somalia warned Tuesday that the U.N. and other foreign diplomats may...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The diplomat who was president of the U.N. Security Council in April 1994 apologized Wednesday for the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has responded to the latest round of U.N. sex abuse inquiries by suggesting it is only responsible for implementing...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Central African...
GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Global murder rates have declined slightly, but remain very high in the Americas and parts of Africa, according to...
TRENTON DANIEL, Associated Press BOMBARDOPOLIS, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Romain Beltinor plunged a hoe into the rocky dirt on his parched hillside to prepare for planting seeds...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Peace talks between South Sudan’s two warring factions resumed in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Tuesday, as the United...
Victims of the 2010 cholera epidemic should get their day in New York federal courts and ultimately be compensated for pain and suffering caused by UN...
By INZA BAKAYOKO Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) – Ivory Coast’s government plans to hand over a former youth leader who is wanted on charges of...
[NDTV.com] Geneva: The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade, the United Nation’s health agency said on...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News “Heartlessness!” Harry F’ouche’, a former Haitian Consul-General in New York, was expressing outrage...
[Reuters] (Reuters) – For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top...
[All Africa] Washington — The number of hungry people in the world is down slightly, but not enough to meet development goals, according to a new...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama stepped on a big limb when he threatened “limited action” against Syria because the country’s leaders allegedly used...
[REUTERS] The United Nations said on Monday it plans to contact the United States over a report that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged its New...
[Voice of America] UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says thousands of children have been killed, injured, tortured or recruited into militias and armies in the past...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Representative Marcia Fudge, the newly-elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, says politically-inspired charges that United Nations...
Danny J. Bakewell, Sr. (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen) By George E. Curry Editor-in-Chief NNPA News Service ATLANTA (NNPA) – Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew...
