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Young people from across the world gathered today on the small Caribbean island of Tobago for the opening of the 7th Commonwealth Youth Forum which runs prior to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad, next week.
Donors are demanding that the government checks the increasing HIV/Aids infections, which are expected to hit 200,000 by the end of 2009 if they are to release more funds.
With a whopping credit facility of $200 million (N25.2 billion), World Bank Assisted Improvement projects in Lagos State have not lived up to expectations, THISDAY has learnt.
More than 150 ex-combatants took part today in the first of a three-day demobilization and reintegration programme sponsored by the Government of Sudan and supported by UNAMID.
Towards supporting the efforts of governments in cushioning the effects of the global crisis, World Bank has said it is preparing a development policy operation of $500 million (N75.5 billion) for approval in early 2010 to support the Federal Government's response to the global financial crisis.
Something legally intriguing is happening at the International Crimainal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR in Arusha.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Nigeria chapter has expressed concern over the declining fortunes of the Naira in recent times.
PUBLIC sector corruption in Uganda continues to worsen according to Transparency International. Corruption is now seen by Ugandans to be more rampant than it was in any of the past five years.
The umbrella body of genocide survivors and other organizations promoting interests of genocide survivors yesterday held a peaceful demonstration against what they described as "malpractices" by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
With a view of improving livelihoods of women in the region, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM yesterday signed a cooperation agreement with the Economic Community of the Countries of the Great Lakes Region (CEPGL) to promote this cause.
PRESIDENT Mugabe and his delegation returned home on Thursday from Rome, Italy, where they attended the Food and Agriculture Organisation's world food security summit that saw the developing world calling for concerted efforts to end global hunger.
The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power.
The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.
Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has called for an end to the buying and selling of African farmland by rich nations during UN hunger summit the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy.
A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.
Armed conflict, inadequate infrastructure, weak governance, limited financing and technological abilities, and policies that stifle entrepreneurship, limit competition and raise the cost of doing business are hindering the industrialization that Africa needs to fully join the global economy, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today.
The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.
Liberian girls and women should draw inspiration from the all-female Indian police unit serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to join law enforcement agencies in the service of their own nation, the top UN official in the West African country said today.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Libya have agreed on a $71 million programme to boost cooperation over the next five years to strengthen food security and sustainable development in the country.
More than 2,000 Kenyan youths from across Nairobi, the capital, will kick off a multi-ethnic football tournament this weekend to score goals in a United Nations-backed bid to use the power of sport to promote reconciliation after last year's deadly inter-communal violence as well as environmental conservation.
Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president.
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that The Gambia's arrest and continued detention of Chief Ebrima Manneh is unlawful under international law. The UN body calls upon The Gambia to release Mr. Manneh immediately.
African Democracy and good Governance (ADG) in collaboration with Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) on Thursday 19th November organized a programme for the commemoration of the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Violence against children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child at their main office in Churchill's Town on the role of parents and adults in preventing abuse and ...
The World Bank has provided a 110 million US dollar credit to Mozambique as direct budget support, under an agreement signed in Maputo on Friday by Planning and Cooperation Minister Aiuba Cuereneia and the World Bank representative in Maputo, Luiz Tavares.
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