United Nations

Sahara cocaine plane crash probed The UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela. Alexandre Schmidt from the UN drugs agency told the BBC that the...

In this article: Cocaine, UN, West Africa, Climate change, Venezuela, Gao, Latin America, and Europe

...WFP spokesman in Nairobi, told the BBC. The UN estimates half of the people living in central and southern Somalia - areas largely controlled by Islamist militants - are now in need of food aid. Al-Shabab, which the US believes has links...

In this article: World Food Programme, Somalia, UN, Al-Qaeda, US, Mogadishu, and Nairobi

...exit from the fight to the Taliban, he says. Included in the proposed action plan are the removal of reconciled Taliban leaders from the UN sanctions list within six months. Meanwhile, UK media reports say the British government...

In this article: Taliban, NATO, Kabul, Afghanistan, US, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, and Suicide

...this time. On its own, the report will not resolve the complex mess in DR Congo, but the people who broke the rules and handed it to the BBC believe that if the UN takes it seriously, it can make a significant difference. But the leaked...

In this article: UN, DR Congo, Security Council, BBC, Rwandan Genocide, Tin, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, and Who's WHO IN THE EAST

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United Nations angry at BBC. By see-dubya • April 28, 2008 09:50 PM. Who to root against? ... The United Nations doesn't like being investigated, and it doesn't ...

A UN expert says growing crops to make biofuels to replace petrol is a crime ... A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce ...