U.N.: Eritrea Obstructing Mission
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 15 -- The Security Council convened an emergency session Friday after U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Eritrea was obstructing the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the border region near Ethiopia.
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The U.N. Security Council on Friday strongly condemned Eritrea's "lack of cooperation" with the U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the disputed border, demanding that it resume providing fuel and food and allow troops to move freely into Ethiopia.
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Nigeria threatened to report to the United Nations an alleged violation by Cameroon of a UN-brokered accord on demilitarization of Bakassi, as it worked to meet a deadline for withdrawing 3,000 Nigerian troops from the oil-rich peninsula this weekend.
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A U.N. human rights mission accused Sudan's government on Monday of orchestrating and taking part in gross violations in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.
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GENEVA : Humanitarian organisations expressed alarm over worsening security in Sudan&#39;s conflict-wracked Darfur region, where the UN refugee agency has been forced to cancel several missions.
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U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday asked Israel's army to pull down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory, a U.N. spokesman said.
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The United Nations says that humanitarian efforts in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region were being undercut by worsening security in the area.
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said on Thursday a security buffer between the Red Sea state and arch-foe Ethiopia was "meaningless" and blamed the United States for a five-year border stalemate.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 27 -- Burma's military rulers have forced the International Committee of the Red Cross to shut down its five rural field offices, crippling the agency's ability to distribute aid to thousands of needy Burmese civilians, according to U.N. and Red Cross officials.
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NAIROBI -- The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food aid and choking off trade to large parts of a remote region in the eastern part of the country that is home to a rebel force, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of starvation, Western diplomats and humanitarian officials say.
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The United Nations has failed to fully staff its operation in Iraq, imperiling the timing and quality of the country's elections, U.S. officials and election experts said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Dozens of heavily armed government security forces stormed a United Nations compound yesterday and spirited away the official overseeing emergency food aid for Somalia's war-ruined capital, prompting the agency to suspend distribution.
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The United Nations has suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast while it investigates allegations of widespread sexual abuse, the world body said on Saturday.
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Darfur's peacekeeping force has resumed some patrols and returned to refugee camps since the U.N. took over this year, but the mission will ultimately fail without more troops and equipment, a top U.N. official said.
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The U.N. World Food Program suspended food convoys to the Darfur region in western Sudan after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, U.N. humanitarian officials said.
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Pervasive violence in Darfur and eastern Chad has compromised the U.N. refugee agency's ability to work in the region, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Friday.
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Sudan's government is paralysing aid operations in the conflict-torn Darfur region, the US envoy says.