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  • May 2008

    • Up to 10,000 Dead in Burma Cyclone

      Times (UK)  |  May 5, 08 1:24 PM CDT

      Up to 10,000 Dead in Burma Cyclone

      (Newser) - As many as 10,000 might have died in the cyclone that struck Burma on Saturday, a government official told foreign diplomats today, and that number could rise yet higher as aid workers pick through the rubble. The death toll, originally estimated at 351, had already been raised to 4,000 earlier today, the Times of London reports. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • storm  • cyclone  • death toll  • aid  • relief

    • Burma Cyclone Toll Leaps to 4,000

      CNN  |  May 5, 08 6:33 AM CDT

      Burma Cyclone Toll Leaps to 4,000

      (Newser) - The death toll in yesterday's Burmese hurricane has skyrocketed to 4,000, CNN reports, up from initial estimates of 350. State-run media issued a revised estimate this morning, along with the government's emergency plea for help. Another 3,000 are thought to be missing. Major relief work has already begun, with international groups coordinating a joint effort, but work was being hampered by the government's travel restrictions on foreigners. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • cyclone  • aid  • relief  • Bangkok  • Red Cross  • Yangon  • aid agencies

  • April 2008

    • S. Africa Blocks Sending UN Envoy to Zimbabwe

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 30, 08 9:19 AM CDT

      S. Africa Blocks Sending UN Envoy to Zimbabwe

      (Newser) - A closed-door session of the Security Council failed to make progress on Zimbabwe after South Africa led a successful effort to block a plan to send a UN envoy to Harare. The US, Britain, and France pushed for dispatching an observer—and for a moratorium on arms sales. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, meanwhile, blasted Zimbabwe's failure to announce election results. More »

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      United Nations  • Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • Zimbabwe elections  • South Africa  • Security Council  • Ban Ki-Moon

    • UN Ready to Tackle Hunger

      BBC  |  Apr 29, 08 10:52 AM CDT

      UN Ready to Tackle Hunger

      (Newser) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is putting together a task force to deal with an "unprecedented" world crisis that's left 100 million without enough food, the BBC reports. Ban also called on donors to follow through on pledges for the World Food Program, saying only 62% of the $755 million needed has been promised—and only $18 million delivered. More »

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      United Nations  • Ban Ki-Moon  • hunger  • World Food Programme

    • UN Troops Traded Guns for Gold

      BBC  |  Apr 28, 08 9:20 AM CDT

      UN Troops Traded Guns for Gold

      (Newser) - UN peacekeeping troops sold weapons to guerrilla fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a BBC investigation claims, charging that the UN suppressed the story for political reasons. Pakistani and Indian troops, part of the UN's largest peacekeeping force of 17,000, are said to have traded munitions for gold. A UN investigation into the scandal was suppressed, a UN insider told the BBC, for fear of angering Pakistan. More »

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      Pakistan  • United Nations  • India  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • peacekeeping force  • arms trafficking  • rebel fighters

    • Rice Is the New Oil

      Newsweek  |  Apr 27, 08 3:31 PM CDT

      Rice Is the New Oil

      (Newser) - Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger." Newsweek investigates the causes, which are both complicated and simple. More »

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      China  • United Nations  • India  • food  • food prices  • poverty  • hunger  • speculation  • rice prices  • hunger riots

    • End Malaria Deaths by 2010: UN

      BBC  |  Apr 25, 08 12:43 PM CDT

      End Malaria Deaths by 2010: UN

      (Newser) - The world must take action now to end malaria deaths—currently at 1 million per year—by 2010, UN chief Ban Ki Moon said today. "We have the resources and the know-how, but we have less than 1,000 days" to meet the goal, said Ban on the first World Malaria Day. The main push will be to provide bed nets and sprays to all of Africa, BBC reports. More »

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      United Nations  • Africa  • disease  • Ban Ki-Moon  • malaria  • mosquito

    • UN Aid to Gaza Blocked by Israeli Embargo

      BBC  |  Apr 24, 08 6:19 AM CDT

      UN Aid to Gaza Blocked by Israeli Embargo

      (Newser) - The United Nations announced today that it will have to suspend its humanitarian aid program in the Gaza Strip because of the Israeli fuel blockade. The UN can't distribute food or collect sewage in the Hamas-controlled territory now that its fuel supply has run out. A Security Council meeting was held to discuss the crisis, but American, British, and French ambassadors walked out when a Libyan representative compared Gaza to a Nazi death camp. More »

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      Israel  • United Nations  • Gaza  • Ban Ki-Moon  • Gaza blockade

    • 300,000 Dead in Darfur: UN

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 23, 08 6:27 AM CDT

      300,000 Dead in Darfur: UN

      (Newser) - The UN's humanitarian chief has painted a grim picture of the situation in Darfur, estimating that disease, war, and famine have claimed 300,000 lives in the region since conflict broke out in 2003—100,000 of them since 2006. People are continuing to die as efforts to solve the crisis have stalled, he warned the Security Council. More »

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      United Nations  • Sudan  • Darfur  • genocide  • UN Security Council  • humanitarian crisis

    • Food Crisis Is 'Mass Murder': UN Envoy

      Reuters  |  Apr 20, 08 4:02 PM CDT

      Food Crisis Is 'Mass Murder': UN Envoy

      (Newser) - A UN envoy called the world's food crisis "silent mass murder" today and blamed multinationals for "monopolizing the riches of the Earth," Reuters reports. Jean Ziegler, UN food rapporteur, chalked up surging food prices in poorer nations to biofuels, commodities markets, and EU subsidies—meaning the West is responsible for this "horror." More »

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      United Nations  • food  • food prices  • biofuel  • hunger  • starvation

    • UN May Cut Food Rations for Schoolkids

      Reuters  |  Apr 19, 08 12:38 PM CDT

      UN May Cut Food Rations for Schoolkids

      (Newser) - Food rations for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren may be cut because of surging crop prices that have widened the World Food Program’s funding gap to $750 million, Reuters says. The UN food aid agency also blamed the situation on high fuel prices and reductions in new crop plantings. “The world’s misery index is rising,” the program’s top exec warned. More »

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      United Nations  • food prices  • farmer  • crops  • wheat  • World Food Program  • rice

    • Pope Warns Against Tyranny

      Associated Press  |  Apr 18, 08 11:45