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UN adopts 4 resolutions, voting by email because of COVID-19
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted four resolutions on Monday, with its 15 members voting by email for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic. Members voted to keep troops in Sudan’s restive Darfur region until the end of May and maintain the U.N....
Mali opposition leader abducted with campaign team in north
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The leader of Mali's political opposition and members of his campaign team have been taken hostage by unidentified gunmen in the north, the spokesman for his political party said Thursday. Soumaila Cisse’s bodyguard died from injuries sustained during the abduction and two others...
UN council holds first video briefings of coronavirus era
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council held its first video conference briefings of the coronavirus era Tuesday on the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, and recognized the improving political and security situation in most parts of the country except the volatile mineral-rich east. The council...
The Latest: Beijing screening overseas flights for virus
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 275,000 people and killed more than 11,300. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or those with existing health problems. More than 88,200 people have recovered...
Fraud and sex abuse probes in UN peace operations increase
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s internal oversight body says in a report on U.N. peace operations that the number of fraud cases it decided to investigate last year increased nearly 80% from 2018, while the number of sexual exploitation and abuse cases rose 40%. The 2019 report by the Office of...
Proposed UN resolution would support Sudan's peace efforts
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A proposed U.N. Security Council resolution would replace the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s restive Darfur region with a U.N. political and peace-building mission whose primary aim would be to support Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy...
UN condemns peacekeeper killing in Central African Republic
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council and the secretary-general on Monday strongly condemned the killing of a U.N. peacekeeper in the Central African Republic during an attack by members of the mainly Christian anti-Balaka group. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country said the peacekeeper...
Canadian, Italian freed in Mali 15 months after abduction
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Canadian woman and an Italian man who had been kidnapped in December 2018 in Burkina Faso have been released in good health, according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in neighboring Mali. Quebec resident Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto had been travelling by car in...
UN report: Sex abuse allegations rose significantly in 2019
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in U.N peacekeeping and political missions rose significantly in 2019, with allegations against civilian personnel nearly doubling, a U.N. report said Friday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report to the U.N. General...
UN welcomes encouraging peace developments in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, welcoming “encouraging developments” toward peace and a reduction in political violence by the warring parties after six years of civil war. The...
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