Secretary General Kofi Annan recommended extending the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau until the end of next year. The Security Council adjusted the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritreas mandate, allowing the mission to assist in the "expeditious and orderly" implementation of the independent Boundary Commissions recent demarcation of the Eth...
The so-called Quartet powers, meeting in New York, established a joint task force to help reform the PA, and continued discussions on the precise future role o...
Moroccan goat herder Lahma Lachili, rejecting claims by the Spanish and Moroccan governments over the disputed island of Perejil (Spanish for "parsley"). While...
UN ROUND-UP: Secretary General Kofi Annan welcomed the holding of elections in Colombia, and submitted an updated report on the UN Mission in Golan Heights to ...
At the end of 2002, the European Commissions sixth Framework Programme for research will become operational with two new instruments through which research fun...
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.