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A senior United Nations official told reporters in Johannesburg
yesterday that the region had been hit by a "death spiral" that
represented the most pressing humanitarian crisis in the world
today.
Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge denied yesterday that Zimbabwe was
snubbing a top UN official on a food assessment mission who was
scheduled to meet with government ministers this week.
A shortage of relief aid in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region has
worsened the plight of people displaced by a 14-month old conflict
there, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said Thursday.
The United Nations, in collaboration with non-governmental
organisations and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC),
have appealed for $530-million for food and other aid to address
the...
With the top US civilian administrators for Iraq recalled to
Washington, a senior replacement arrived in the region accompanied
by one of the highest-ranking US military generals.
One month after US Marines helped jubilant Iraqis pull down a huge
statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad, the US was to put a
resolution Friday to the UN Security Council seeking an end to...
James Morris, the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy
for humanitarian needs in Southern Africa, will from today visit
four of the countries in the region worst affected by hunger and...
Some 38 million Africans are at risk from an unprecedented hunger
crisis on the continent, a senior United Nations official told the
Security Council today, stressing that adequate political will...