OSLO – “Over 4.4 million people in South Sudan are in need of emergency assistance. The conflict that broke out in December has made a difficult...
GENEVA – The Central African Republic is now at a critical juncture, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned on Monday, amid renewed...
ADDIS ABABA – The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 415th meeting held on 27 January 2014, adopted the following decision...
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement: “Canada welcomes the progress made in Tunisia’s democratic transition with the adoption today of...
EL FASHER – On 25 January 2014, the African Union – United Nations Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mohamed Ibn Chambas concluded a two-day visit...
DUBLIN – The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Eamon Gilmore T.D., has condemned the series of bomb attacks which took place earlier...
GENEVA – A follow-up mission to Mauritania by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, Gulnara Shahinian, has been...
OSLO – “Norway welcomes the ceasefire agreement in South Sudan. It is crucial that the parties now keep strictly to these agreements. All hostilities must cease...
LONDON – Every day, more than 1,000 South Sudanese refugees are fleeing the fighting in their home country, crossing into Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, where emergency...
ADDIS ABABA – The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, welcomes the signing, today, in Addis Ababa, by the Government...