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The United Nations-operated World Food Programme announces it has been forced to temporarily cease the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur, Sudan, due to an escalation in fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the region. Doctors Without Borders also temporarily ceased operations in the camp last week.
2025-02-26

United Nations human rights investigators accuse Israel of crimes against humanity and the crime of extermination by deliberately targeting health facilities and medical personnel in Gaza.
2024-10-10

Kenyan president William Ruto announces an agreement with Haiti to deploy 1,000 police officers as part of a mission approved by the United Nations to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation.
2024-03-1

The United Nations Human Rights Office says that Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp may be "disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes".
2023-11-2

At least nine people are killed and dozens injured in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi after several mortar shells hit a protest against a UN proposal for a unity government to end the four-year long crisis in the country.
2015-10-23

The United Nations confirms the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has completely destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, after earlier reports that the structure was mostly intact.
2015-09-1

The Democratic Republic of the Congo wants United Nations sanctions on Rwandese top military officials named in a June U.N. report as supporting the M23 rebels in the current east Congo conflict.
2012-09-3

A bomb explodes in Daraa, Syria, near a convoy carrying several United Nations observers in the country.
2012-05-9

2011 Horn of Africa famine: The World Bank promises $500 million in aid to drought victims in East Africa as a United Nations agency hosts an emergency meeting aimed at fighting famine.
2011-07-25

The United Nations seeks to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV-AIDS in Africa. Michel Sidibé visited Sauri in western Kenya, which is a village of the Millennium Villages Project.
2010-01-11