Vienna, 8 July -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is providing member states a new form of assistance in bringing their national legislation in line with international conventions that address terrorism: model laws designed to assist states in meeting their obligations to counter the financing of terrorism. Within UNODC, the anti-money...
Thousands of residents who fled inter-militia fighting in the town of Bunia in northeastern DRC have begun returning to their homes, the UN peacekeeping missio...
The new African oil boom - centered on the oil-rich Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Guinea, from Nigeria to Angola - is a moment of great opportunity and great ...
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics June 10 released a survey showing that Palestinian average income has been reduced by 50 percent since September 2...
Widespread calls have been made for a halt to escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinians that left at least 26 people dead in one day, threatening...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo?s presidential and parliamentary vote went ahead on 28-30 November, after a campaign marred by violence and amid allegations of rigging and mismanagement. Political rallies were banned in the wake of...
Deadly clashes between government forces and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) broke out in the troubled southern Philippines in October.
In Sudan a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) offensive in Blue Nile state, and renewed clashes in Southern Kordofan between the SAF and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, fuelled fears of a return to civil war.