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KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. The challenges confronting humanity as the world’s population…
(UNIFIL Press Statement on Tripartite Meeting, 31 October 2011) The Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas, today chaired a tripartite meeting with senior…
31 October 2011 - On 30 October, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, announced the start of three Quick Impact Projects (QIP) in Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur. The projects…
KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. Dari - Pashto The challenges confronting humanity as the world…
As the world receives the birth of its 7 billionth person, three babies, among them twins, were also born on 31 October in El Fasher Women’s Hospital, North Darfur, Sudan. At 1130, Nahla Mohammed Ahmed, 21, saw her first son…
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27 October 2011 - Against the backdrop of West Africa as one of the major gateways for cocaine moving from South America into Europe, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today arrived in Guinea-Bissau, accompanied by the…
26 October 2011 – In a bid to tackle maternal mortality by inserting midwives countrywide, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and Ministry of Health (MoH) organized a workshop today to review their joint midwives project in South…
26 October 2011 - Opening the third session of Unity State Parliament today in the state capital of Bentiu, Governor Lt. Gen. Taban Deng Gai called on its 48 members to promote hard work and entrepreneurship in the state.…
27 October 2011 – After delays due to bad weather, United Nations Day was celebrated today at Shaabia National Secondary School for Girls in the Upper Nile State capital of Malakal. The event was postponed after strong winds…
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KABUL - H.E. the Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani and the Country Office Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Mr. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, visited…
South Kivu, 3 October 2011 - Pakistan Army confronted an armed group in Sabele village and made them flee this village located 32 Km South West of Baraka in South Kivu. These troops, part of the UN Stabilization Mission in…
El Fasher, 30 October 2011 - The newly appointed United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, chose Darfur for his first visit to a UN field operation. The UN Department of Peacekeeping…