UNDP and the Japanese aid agency JICA have signed an agreement to train the national police force in North Kivu and the Oriental Province of DRC as soon as January 2010.
World football governing body, FIFA has placed a ban on the nomination of government representatives on all boards of national federations affiliated to it.
Half way through the UN climate summit in Copenhagen and after a week in which no breakthrough was achieved, ecumenical leaders have asked negotiators to be more ambitious.
President Kibaki has appealed to world leaders to support the strengthening of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) based in Nairobi.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's $100 billion pledge to combat climate change is missing the crucial details that will give it credibility with developing countries in the Copenhagen negotiations said development agency ActionAid today.
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 4 December 2009, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
African nations today threatened to boycott the on-going international talks on the future of climate change treaty amid charges that rich industrialized nations were trying to sideline their delegates.
The results of a twinning program in the handicrafts sector between Tunisia, France and Spain, were presented Tuesday on the sidelines of a seminar held in Tunis.
Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen officials have Thursday issued a statement and shut down the UN organization known as "Mine Action" to operate in Somalia.
The European Commission this week approved the Annual Action Programme 2009 in favour of Namibia to provide 1.5 million through the 10th European Development Fund to support the country's economic governance.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has showed it allegiance to the sport development as they recently organised a special open round table discussion on the development of sport in the country and the launch of the Namibian 2010 sport calendar.
As part of measures of the Groundnut Road map Implementation Framework, the European Union, through the European Commission, yesterday presented agricultural equipment to the Gambia Groundnut Cooperation (GGC) for onward distribution to the country's farming community, at a ceremony held at the GGC complex at Denton Bridge.
THE Zimbabwe Olympic Committee will on Sunday name the Young Ambassador for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games set for Singapore in August 2010.
WOMEN in Karamoja are suffering all types of gender violence, including courtship rape, the UN has said in a report. The report, released yesterday by the UN Population Fund, was launched by gender state minister Rukia Nakadama Isanga at Hotel Africana in Kampala.
Obesity and overweight in Nairobi in the last year has reached alarming levels with almost half the women tipping the scales. Compared to seven other African countries - Tanzania, Niger, Ghana, Malawi Burkina Faso and Senegal - 38 per cent of women in Kenyan towns are either obese or overweight.
Concomitantly with the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, the Tunisian Association of Digital Geographic Information (ATIGN) is organizing from December 16 to 20, 2009, the Fourth edition of the international congress "Geo Tunisia 2009" which is held at the Tunis International Center for Environmental Technologies.
ACCOUNTANTS worldwide have united in the need for a global reporting standard on climate change disclosure.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that police and the army killed 133 people because of the shoot-at-sight order given to them by the Plateau State Governor David Jonah Jang during the November 2008 crisis that followed the local government elections.
In a venture supported by UNAMID, the Sudanese National AIDS Programme (SNAP) began a campaign yesterday commemorating World AIDS Day in El Fasher, North Darfur.
A delegation from the European Commission (EC), an executive body of the European Union, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, on a fact-finding mission.
AIRPORTS Company SA's (Acsa's) requested 132,9% increase in airport tariffs could cost SA 483m in the next two years, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) said yesterday.
The Government has signed a five-year deal with the UN to fight poverty.
Nigeria has released $2 million to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help in the comprehensive detection, treatment, control and management of cancer cases in the country.
The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Tuesday announced plans to assist the East African Community (EAC) partner states enhance free movement of people within the bloc.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to support new ICT training to be undertaken at Tumba College of Technology (TCT).
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