The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, plagued in recent years by food shortages, an erosion of basic services and an economic downturn due in part to long-running political strife, has significantly improved but continued aid is still needed to maintain the positive gains, a top United Nations official said today.
Sierra Leone has made a strong start in compensating war victims but only early steps have been made in a long process that needs long-term government commitment and funding, says an NGO monitoring reparations progress.
Developing economies dependent on export commodities such as Kenya face uncertain times over persistent volatility of ocean freight charges, a new global maritime report warned.
In the past 18 years 11,000 extreme events have claimed the lives of 600,000 people and cost US$1.7 trillion across the globe, said the Climate Risk Index 2010, released in Copenhagen at the UN climate change conference.
Seven children die of hunger every minute because they do not have access to treatment, but the impact of climate change on the drivers of undernutrition - food insecurity, health threats and water stress - could push up this number, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) said at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen (COP15).
The outcome of the historic United Nations climate change conference under way in Copenhagen will have reverberations for the future of humanity and the planet, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
A leading South African climate change negotiator says SA's offer to scale back the rate of growth of carbon emissions is voluntary and not legally binding.
War-torn and drought-ravaged Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis with no funding so far raised or pledged for next year for food, water, sanitation, health and other vital needs and the potential that the situation could spill over into a major regional crisis for its neighbours, senior United Nations officials warned today.
Uganda is pushing participants at the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen to accept payment of reparation by developed countries to poor nations as a win-win deal for all countries, Daily Monitor can reveal.
Non-governmental Organisations and journalists operating in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have revealed that the security situation in South Kivu province is worsening after the FDLR rebels attacked villages were they looted and raped women.
9 December 2009 - Morale among peacekeepers in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur remains high, despite the recent attacks that have claimed the lives of five blue helmets, a top United Nations official said today.
For three years INGC, a government institution responsible for coordinating natural disaster response, has conducted training exercises to raise awareness, among ordinary Mozambicans, of aware of what to do in case a flood or a cyclone strikes.
The International Criminal Court, ICC, faces serious logistical and legal challenges in 2010 as financial constraints could force three major trials into a single courtroom.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has just released an animated video online in an effort to educate youth about human trafficking specifically in South Africa.
THE history between Zambia and South Africa dates back many years, during South Africa's pre-Independence or apartheid era, as it is commonly referred to.
The World Bank said yesterday that its experience in financing climate change investment projects over the past decade had shown the facility was the best way Africa could contribute to slowing global warming.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its final edited report with 10 persons being added to the list of most notorious perpetrators of war crimes.
World leaders and poqicy-makers from 192 nations will be seek to reduce global warming by agreeing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases during the UN Conference on Climate Change going on in Copenhagen.
The World Bank said on Wednesday that its experiences in financing climate change investment projects over the last decade have shown that these are the best ways African countries can benefit and contribute to slowing global warming.
Janamitra Devan, the new Vice President of Financial and Private Sector Development of the World Bank and IFC, has just completed a two-day visit to Rwanda.
United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in Liberia, over the week-end joined their Liberian counterparts to celebrate International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2009. Members of the new Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), students, women and youth groups, and other volunteer organizations in Liberia, paraded principal streets in Monrovia in a walk for peace and the environment. Other volunteers carried out a beach ...
President Kibaki will lead a strong 65- man Kenyan delegation to the ongoing climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Nation has established.
A month-long investigation into an alleged bribery scandal between the Government of Senegal and one of the International Monetary Fund (IMF's) expatriate, has exonerated the latter.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has said that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) must be seen as being part of the solution on climate change, especially at the UnitedNations (UN) organized global conference on the subject in COP15 delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which began on Monday.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the fifth review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) and the first review under the one-year Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF). The completion of the first review under the ESF makes available a disbursement of SDR 14.2 million (about 22.6 US million dollars). The Board's decision was taken on a lapse of time ...
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