U.N.: Liberia Repatriation of 500 a Start
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The top U.N. envoy for Liberia on Monday said the return of some 500 Liberians to their villages is the first step in repatriating some 300,000 others who became homeless in 15 years of civil war in this West African nation.
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The global number of refugees rises for the first time in five years, mainly due to the Iraq war, the UN says.
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The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday he is sending a representative to Baghdad to help millions of displaced Iraqis return home, showing a strengthened U.N. commitment to deal with the crisis and confidence in recent security gains.
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Five years after 'liberation,' UN officials are again working on a plan for the political status of the province.
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The war crimes tribunal trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor for allegedly orchestrating atrocities in West Africa's upheavals needs more money to complete its cases, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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Liberia's government starts moves to seize the assets of former President Charles Taylor.
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More than 500 million people can  escape abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to  bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich  countries double development aid over the next 10 years to $195  billion, a new U.N.-sponsored report said on Monday.
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GOMA, Congo, July 14 -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine their troops in an attempt to pacify the area, according to a U.N. Security Council report released...
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U.N. peacekeepers have made good  progress stabilizing Liberia after years of war but the country  needs more international help to rebuild its shattered economy  and create jobs, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
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A convoy of displaced Liberians heads for home in the first wave of returns for around 500,000 people.
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A senior U.N. official marked World Refugee Day Tuesday by welcoming home 125 Liberians from Sierra Leone where they lived for years seeking haven from Liberia&#039;s civil war.
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World News, A senior United Nations envoy to Sudan will travel to the strife-torn region of Darfur tomorrow to inspect the areas where the Sudanese Government has claimed about 70,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have voluntarily returned to their
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The United Nations and the African Union plan a meeting in Libya this month on how to advance peace talks among rebel groups in violent Darfur where 2.5 million people are homeless, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to send another 5,900 peacekeepers to the Congo, less than half of what U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had requested.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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A U.N. cease-fire resolution has authorized up to 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Contributions from European countries so far have been limited:
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Armed UN troops backed by armoured personnel carriers enforced a nationwide disarmament deadline in Liberia on Sunday, days after a fresh burst of violence showed illicit weapons still at large in the war-battered West African