Last Updated: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 11:47
Nepal asked UN on Wednesday to keep its peace-monitoring mission in place there even though the world body had hoped to start withdrawing it later this month.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 15:18
The UN said on Tuesday it had temporarily withdrawn foreign staff and shut its mission in Kandahar, the Afghan city where security has deteriorated ahead of a major military offensive.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 10:05
Gunmen abducted more than 40 peacekeepers in Sudan`s Darfur region before freeing all but two of them a day later, the United Nations and African Union mission said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 12:03
A top UN official in Haiti on Friday said many of those made homeless by the massive earthquake one month ago are unlikely to be provided "good shelter" before the coming rainy season.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 10:41
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appointed Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as his new envoy to Afghanistan, shortly before departing for a crucial London conference on the war-wracked country`s future.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 10:04
A high-level UN delegation has wrapped up its mission to discuss the strengthening of humanitarian assistance to those uprooted by military operations in Swat district of North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
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