Martin to push for better African peacekeeping force in first speech to UN
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin will push for an effective African peacekeeping force to deal with problems like the crisis in Sudan when he speaks to the United Nations next week.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has urged the Non-Aligned Movement to work flat out to resolve world conflicts, reform the United Nations and towards the eradication of poverty.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.
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Leaders of the African Union began a three-day summit here Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states with an acknowledgement the continent&#39;s current system of governance had to improve.
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Gabonese President Omar Bongo opened the first summit of heads of state of the African Union's Peace and Security Council in Libreville, which is due to address some of the continent's most intractable conflicts.
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NEW YORK - President Bush, trying to soften his image overseas as a heavy-handed unilateralist, is using his annual address to the United Nations to offer up a brighter vision of a planet with less hunger, disease and oppression.    Exactly six weeks before Election Day, Bush is equally concerned about his audience at home...
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Somalia&#39;s prime minister urged  the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to send peacekeepers to  his country, but council members told him they wanted to see  political progress toward peace first.
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Bringing peace to Darfur will not be easy but a joint U.N.-African Union force should be much more effective than the AU peacekeepers currently struggling to hold the ring, the new force commander said on Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, making his first trip to Haiti, called Thursday for strengthening the national police force to stem an upsurge in kidnapping and lawlessness.
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OTTAWAâPrime Minister Paul Martin kicked off the first ministers&#39; meeting yesterday by announcing $700 million to improve aboriginal health.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to strengthen African Union forces in the Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region and more than double it if a U.N. takeover of peacekeeping duties is approved.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki says more international peacekeepers might be needed to restore peace in the divided West African state of Ivory Coast.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is to outline a more assertive role for France on the world stage when he delivers on Monday his first major address on foreign policy since taking office.
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Chad's President Idriss Deby urged the European Union on Thursday to send a peacekeeping force to his country as quickly as possible.
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The President prepares to make a pitch for "global liberation" from tyranny, poverty and disease
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Chad's President Idriss Deby urged the  European Union on Thursday to send a peacekeeping force to his  country as quickly as possible.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed four areas where the United Nations can immediately help the African Union (AU) expand its cease fire-monitoring mission in