U.N. chief's Africa policy questioned
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A powerful group of developing countries has accused Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of trying to downgrade the U.N.'s focus on Africa by consolidating several key posts without General Assembly approval.
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A U.N. mini-summit convened to  set a future course for the peace process in divided Ivory  Coast flopped on Wednesday when the West African nation's  president carried out a threat to boycott it.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said he wanted the African Union peacekeeping mission in war-torn Darfur to continue, accusing the UN of harbouring a &quot;hidden agenda.&quot;
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Sudanese president Omar al-Beshir's reply to a UN request to deploy UN peacekeepers in strife-torn Darfur &quot;seems to challenge&quot; an agreement reached last November, a UN spokeswoman said Friday.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary General Kofi Annan was facing new questions on Friday about support from his own employees after UN staff cast doubt on a show of confidence in his leadership.
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During the past 18 months, Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the United Nations has expressed many reservations about the war in Iraq.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan was questioned twice last year by the commission  investigating the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, a U.N. spokesman  acknowledged on Tuesday.
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Plans to deploy a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to Sudan's violence-plagued Darfur region could still be derailed by a dearth in funding and political will, the chairman of the African Union warned Sunday.
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Ahead of the UN General Assembly annual session, nearly 50 world leaders and the United Nations on Monday raised concerns about the rising gap between rich and the poor, but disagreed with United States on the strategy to fight poverty.
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African nations sending peacekeepers to Somalia should convince Islamists it is not an "invasion force", the UN chief says.
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Kofi Annan built a reputation as the world's most trusted diplomat, but the oil-for-food scandal has riled U.S. critics. Is his job in jeopardy?
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Kofi Annan says the UN needs to reassess its approach in Sudan's Darfur region because current policies do not work.
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United Nations, December 10: The US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, has denied that the United States is trying to push out embattled UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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The former United Nations secretary general has spent the past week trying to nudge Kenyaâs government and opposition leaders toward a compromise.
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WASHINGTON - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was pressed Thursday to do more in Iraq, while at the same time he was being snubbed by the US president.
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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Some of the five permanent members of  the United Nations Security Council are using their clout to  raise issues that do not belong in the decision-making body,  South Africa&#39;s foreign minister said on Tuesday.