As part of the joint training project for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) and Sierra Leone Police, funded by the...

7 April 2011 - Drug resistance is becoming more severe and many infections are no longer easily cured, leading to prolonged and expensive treatment and greater risk of death, warns the World Health Organization (WHO) on World…

Nairobi, 7 April 2011 - Somalis should be primary beneficiaries of High Level Consultative Meeting. [English] [Somali]

Nairobi, 07 April 2011 – Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General Augustine P. Mahiga today said that the High Level Consultative meeting will take place as scheduled on the 12 and 13 April in Nairobi.…

KABUL - The Afghan Ministry of Public Health and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are warning that urgent action is needed to curb excessive use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials or the world risks…

Dakar, 7 april 2011 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa, Said Djinnit, visited Bamako, Mali, on 6-7 April, to reiterate the United Nations firm position on the need for an…

6 April 2011 - Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather, today, to mourn our colleagues. The roster of the fallen, in recent days, has been shocking and profoundly sad. We stand in solidarity with their friends and families, united in…

KABUL - On 28 October 2009, attackers stormed the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul killing five United Nations staff as part of a plan to disrupt the presidential election runoff. We remember: Jossie Esto, UNDP electoral…

Bujumbura, April 05, 2011_ Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message on the seventeenth Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda, observed 7 April: Today, we honour the memory of more than 800,000 people murdered…

3 April, Kabul - Afghanistan experienced its third day of protests in the wake of the burning of the Koran two weeks ago by a US pastor in Florida. Sunday’s protests occurred in many provinces and cities across the country…