By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 November 2006 U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland says the international community, governments and political leaders are in denial about the scope of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's province...
By Noel King Khartoum 19 November 2006 Sudanese officials have been giving conflicting signals about whether the government has accepted the idea of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry says there is disagreem...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 November 2006 Nigeria's National Population Commission is set to announce results of last March's national census next month. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria and the expected announcement comes at a politically sen...
By David Gollust State Department 15 November 2006 A top U.S. State Department official says he thinks Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is losing influence following his verbal attack on President Bush at the United Nations in September. Undersecre...
By Michael Bowman Washington 30 October 2006 The Bush administration says efforts to secure the U.S. border with Mexico are reducing the flow of illegal aliens into the country. The announcement follows President Bush's signing of a bill authorizing...
By Sonja Pace London 23 October 2006 Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, Monday Oct. 23, 2006 raqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says his government is working to take greater...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 20 October 2006 The top United Nations official handling avian flu says Asia has shown significant progress in preparing to fight the spread of the virus. But the official warns that more help is needed to support Indonesia, wh...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 October 2006 A senior U.S. diplomat says Somalia must not further become a safe haven for terrorists. The president of Somalia's interim government alleges that radicals inside the Islamic courts movement that controls much...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 07 October 2006 A senior U.S. official says work on a new U.N. Security Council resolution to sanction Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment activities will begin in a few days. ---- U.S. Under Secretary...
By Richard Green Washington 06 September 2006 The United States says it will take hard diplomatic work for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to suspend nuclear enrichment activities. ----- Back in July, the United...