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The UN has not received the right support from its Member States and the Security Council over the last year to adequately fulfil its role in creating peace across the world. That's the assessment of Mogens Lykketoft who steps down on Tuesday as the 70th President of the UN General Assembly. Conflicts in Syria, Yemen [...]

The reconciliation of former foes in Liberia following years of civil war and conflict is an "unfinished business" according to a senior UN peacekeeping official. Two months ago, the West African country assumed full security responsibilities from the UN Mission in Liberia, UNMIL, a process which has been described as a "huge achievement." El–Ghassim Wane, [...]

Information is power in today's world and even more so when working to reduce the risk of disasters, according to the UN Office for Disaster-Risk Reduction UNISDR. When an earthquake or flood hits, a simple radio or televised message telling people where to go and what to do to stay safe can make a difference [...]

The Russian Federation and the United States have agreed to reinstate a ceasefire in war-torn Syria starting next week, the UN special envoy for the country has confirmed. The United Nations welcomed the move which would allow for the resumption of the intra-Syrian peace talks, Staffan de Mistura said in a statement released late on [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from United Nations Radio, with Daniel Dickinson and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: We have a reaction to a presumed nuclear test in North Korea And, keeping two million people healthy at the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca

  DPRK nuclear test shows "complete disregard" for international community The test of a nuclear weapon by Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been confirmed and condemned by global monitoring groups including UN-partner the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In a statement on Friday, IAEA head Yukiya Amano said that the test by the [...]

The "democratic aspirations" of the people Gabon should be respected in a legal challenge to a disputed presidential election. The claim filed by the defeated candidate, Jean Ping, who lost the August poll by around 5,500 votes, has been made in the Constitutional Court. Violence erupted on the streets of the capital, Libreville, following the [...]

Pilgrims who travel to Saudi Arabia for the annual Muslim Hajj celebrations are facing the heightened risk of heat exhaustion and respiratory diseases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Over 2 million pilgrims are expected to participate in this year's hajj that is underway in the holy city of Mecca. The UN health agency [...]

"Frightening" is how a presumed nuclear test in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, has been described by the head of the CTBTO, the UN agency tasked with banning the testing of all atomic explosions. According to media reports, the test was the fifth and largest ever conducted by the [...]