Peace Corps suspends Kenya operations
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The U.S. Peace Corps said Tuesday it had temporarily suspended its operations in Kenya following weeks of violence over a disputed election.
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Kenya's feuding political parties adjourned talks for the weekend on Thursday, dashing chief mediator Kofi Annan's hopes to have a final political settlement this week to the post-election crisis.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had to postpone a mediation trip to Kenya because of flu and is recuperating, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
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The United Nations said on Saturday it had suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast while it investigated allegations of widespread sexual abuse.
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The International Red Cross suspends its field work in the Gaza Strip after two of its staff are briefly abducted.
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The International Red Cross temporarily has halted its missing person program in South and East Asia, according to local American Red Cross chapters.
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Kofi Annan suspended Thursday crisis talks aimed at ending Kenya's political crisis after an opposition lawmaker was shot dead by a policeman, triggering further clashes which killed at least two.
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The United States has imposed travel bans on 10 Kenyans suspected of being behind ethnic violence that has convulsed the country since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, officials said on Thursday.
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Care International suspended operations in Iraq today after gunmen seized the British woman who ran the humanitarian organisationâs work in the country.
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The British-based CARE charity suspended its work in Iraq Wednesday following the kidnapping of its chief of operations by unknown armed militants.
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Sudan's government says it is halting  military operations in Darfur immediately and unconditionally.
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Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur's main rebel movements have been suspended until January, according to a joint statement from the parties released by the African Union.
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Beijing's two top universities halt a campaign to hand out free condoms on campuses for World Aids Day.
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UK charter flights to Kenya are suspended until 14 January, tour operators chiefs have said.
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Kenya's stock exchange halts trade and the shilling falls back against the dollar as violence continues.
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The UN World Food Program halted its food convoys to the Sudanese region of Darfur after rebels clashed with government forces in the commercial town of Ghubaysh, UN aid officials said.
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Major travel operators on Thursday joined firms in other countries who have suspended trips to Kenya because of unrest there.