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India and Afghanistan cricket teams join forces to appeal to parents to immunize their children against polio and end the crippling disease in the region once and for all. SRI LANKA - Indian batting superstars Virender Sehwag…
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KABUL - The Governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed in a meeting, chaired by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in the Turkish city of Istanbul last week that voluntary and dignified repatriation of the Afghan…
18 September 2012 - The first of its kind in South Sudan, a "peace centre" opened today in Gok Machar, Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State, to serve as a joint court for chiefs of host and Arab nomadic communities in the state.…
19 September 2012 - Focusing on the media's vital role in peacebuilding, 18 journalists from thethree radio stations in Warrap State wrapped up a two-day media forum today in the state capital Kuajok. Under the theme…
18 September 2012 - To assist in hunting down Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, some 2,500 soldiers from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) today joined the African Union…
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18 September 2012 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Burundi and Head of BNUB Parfait Onanga-Anyanga today held a meeting with Burundian first Vice-president as part of his courtesy visits to the country…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Paolo Serra today called on President Michel Sleiman, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati. The meetings come at the heels of the extension of…
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UN welcomes handover of troops to the African Union Regional Task Force Two thousand (2,000) soldiers from the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) and 500 from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have been officially…
El Fasher, 16 September 2012 – One of the largest armed movements in Darfur, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), has recently affirmed its commitment prohibiting the recruitment and use of child soldiers. The official…
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Monrovia, Liberia - Commending the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) for its continuing and significant contribution to maintaining peace and stability in Liberia, the Security Council in its resolution 2066 (2012) has renewed…
Kasindi, 13 September 2012 – The Head of the Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) in Beni, Nord Kivu province, laid the foundation for a vocational…
Somalia is ranked as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman according to Ilwad Mahamuud Ali from Elman Peace and Human Rights Center. "Women are extremely marginalised and neglected and they are not part…