Conflict

Afghanistan: UN-backed mine clearing project reports 34 killed during 2014

New York, Jan 16 (JEN) The United Nations-supported Mine Action Programme in Afghanistan (MAPA) has said on Thursday that while 2014 could prove to have been a major turning point in the country’s long and tortured history, it was also a year that had inflicted “immense and unprecedented tragedy” on the programme’s personnel. more

UN envoy says Syria set back 40 years by war, calls for renewed push towards solution

New York, Jan 16 (JEN) With the “devastating conflict” in Syria entering its fourth year, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria said on Thursday that continued ...

Journalism after ‘Charlie’: in Paris, UNESCO hosts day of reflection, free speech debate

New York, Jan 15 (JEN) In the wake of last week’s attack against French satirical magazineCharlie Hebdo, the United Nations agency mandated to protect free expression today hosted at its ...

UN strongly deplores civilian deaths as Ukraine fighting continues

New York, Jan 15 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the shelling which resulted in the deaths of at least 11 civilian bus passengers amid ongoing fighting in t ...

UN rights office ‘deeply deplores’ latest Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

New York, Jan 14 (JEN) The United Nations human rights office has condemned the latest spate of violence committed by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram amid reports of renewed mass killing ...

World leaders, commoners march in Paris against terror attack

Paris, Jan 11 (JEN): Days after France witnessed three days of deadliest militant attacks beginning with massacre of journalists and cartoonists in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo office ki ...

UNESCO chief joins world leaders for historic anti-terror unity march in Paris

Paris, Jan 11 (JEN) The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, participated in Sunday's historic march for freedom and solidarit ...

Gunmen killed in police raids

Paris, Jan 10 (JEN): Heavily armed police units conducted simultaneous raids in north and east of Paris halting an Islamic rampage that had started on Wednesday with a massacre at a satirica ...

At least 2,000 people killed by Boko Haramin Nigeria

Yola, Jan 10 (JEN): Hundreds of bodies were found strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack with Amnesty International suggesting the incident as “deadliest massacre� ...

UN chief offers condolences to French Government in wake of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack

New York, Jan 10 (JEN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Fridayvisited the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations to offer, on behalf of the Organization, his condolences to the fa ...