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The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own...

The election of Angola's Dr. Luís Gomes Sambo as Africa Director of the United Nations' World Health Organisation, with 32 votes to seven for Burundi's Déogratias Barakamfitiye, showed...

News that a complaint of sexual harassment against the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, has been dismissed has emerged as oddly as the story of...

With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. ...

The international community seems powerless to prevent the steady worsening of the crisis (AC Vol 45 No 11). A United Nations Security Council mission arrived on 22 June...