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HAITI / ‘FRIENDSHIP GAMES’
The game of soccer is being used to foster friendship and sportsmanship between children in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. "The Friendship Games," includes cross-border events like…
30 March 2011
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UN / SUDAN
The Joint Special Representative for the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) said Darfur “is not, and cannot, be immune from what is happening at the national level” and…
17 April 2019
General Assembly
49th Plenary Meeting of General Assembly: 50th Session
General Assembly requests Secretary-General ensure personnel recruited by Organization have command of at least one working language at the 49th plenary meeting of the 50th session.
2 November 1995
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SUDAN / WATER SHORTAGE
For a number of years during the months between April and June, Sudan's Missireya community have experienced a lack of rain for a number of years which frequently results in water shortages for…
16 April 2011
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KENYA / DROUGHT MALNUTRITION
According to UNICEF, more than 16,000 children in the IDP camps in Dadaab are malnourished. In the last month alone, the agency has provided therapeutic milk and food for more than 5,000 children.…
14 September 2011
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GENEVA / JAPAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE MECHANISM
Head of the World Meteorological Organization Michel Jarraud today talked about the importance of knowing "where the nuclear particles will go" when washed down by precipitation as the…
15 March 2011
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UN / AFGHANISTAN
UN Special Representative in Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council today that recent security incidents, including an attack on the "iconic" Hotel- Intercontinental Kabul…
6 July 2011
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SOMALIA / PRINCE AL-WALEED
Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia visited famine victims in Somalia and met with members of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) including President Sheikh Sharif…
29 August 2011
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UN / SOMALIA WRAP
Addressing the Security Council today, UN Special Representative for Somalia Augustine Mahiga warned that the "scale of humanitarian suffering is immense" and the "security situation…
10 August 2011
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IMF / STRAUSS-KAHN
In a press conference ahead of the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, Strauss-Kahn argued that the world economy is recovering, but in an unbalanced way. He said such imbalances are among the main…
14 April 2011
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AFGHANISTAN / WITTIG WRAP
On the possibility of removing some Taliban members from the Council's sanctions list, Ambassador Peter Wittig, who also chairs the Security Council committee that monitors the sanctions for…
8 June 2011
General Assembly
67th Plenary Meeting of General Assembly: 50th Session - Part 1
Increased cooperation sought with Arab League, Islamic Conference, by terms of two General Assembly resolutions at the 67th plenary meeting of the 50th session.
20 November 1995