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United Nations – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg United Nations – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 Famine in Somalia, by Ban Ki-moon, UN Sec Gen http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/famine-somalia-ban-ki-moon-un-sec-genera Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:57:20 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9596 Across the Horn of Africa, people are starving. A catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought has left more than 11 million people in desperate need. The United Nations has been sounding the alert for months. We have resisted using the “f-word” — famine — but on Wednesday we officially recognized the fast-evolving …

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]]> Africa’s Evil: An Examination http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africas-evil-an-examination http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africas-evil-an-examination#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:09:57 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9444 The eccentric atmosphere following the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's President, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity (short of genocide) in Darfur open the obscurities of evil in Africa for the past 50 years.

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africas-evil-an-examination/feed 7 Sudanese Leader Still Committing Crimes in Darfur, Security Council Told http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/sudanese-leader-still-committing-crimes-in-darfur-security-council-told Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:36:23 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9046 8 June 2011 –Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir continues to commit crimes against humanity and carry out genocide against the residents of Darfur in defiance of the United Nations, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, told the Security Council today. In 2005 the Council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC …

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]]> Top UN Relief Official Sounds Alarm After ‘deeply troubling’ Visit to Côte d’Ivoire http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/relief-official-sounds-alarm-ivory-coast-crisis http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/relief-official-sounds-alarm-ivory-coast-crisis#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:07:52 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8331 7 April 2011 –The United Nations relief chief sounded the alarm today about the humanitarian situation inside Côte d’Ivoire, saying emergency aid is needed now to help hundreds of thousands of civilians caught up in the deadly violence that has engulfed the West African country. Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/relief-official-sounds-alarm-ivory-coast-crisis/feed 1 New Energy-efficient UN Offices in Kenya Serve as Model for Sustainable Future – Ban http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/energy-efficient-un-offices-in-kenya-serve-as-model-for-sustainable-future-%e2%80%93-ban Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:52:48 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8159 31 March 2011 –Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today officially opened the new energy-efficient United Nations office complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, calling it a model for environmentally sustainable architecture in Africa and beyond. “This building is beautiful, comfortable and efficient. But more than any of that, this building is a living model of our sustainable …

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]]> Resource-rich Africa Well Placed to Transition to ‘Green Economy’ – UN official http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/africa-transition-green-economy http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/africa-transition-green-economy#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:50:08 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8090 28 March 2011 –Africa is well poised to take advantage of a host of opportunities on the continent for building a ‘green economy,’ one that generates decent jobs in an environmentally sustainable way, a senior United Nations official said today. “This continent is in many ways the envy of the 21st century world,” Achim Steiner, …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/africa-transition-green-economy/feed 1 Up to 1 Million People Driven From Homes by Violence in Côte d’Ivoire, UN Reports http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/up-to-1-million-people-driven-homes-by-violence-in-cote-d%e2%80%99ivoire-un-reports Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:48:51 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8052 25 March 2011 –As many as 1 million people have been driven from their homes in Côte d’Ivoire in the months-long turmoil stemming from the outgoing president’s refusal to leave office, with violence mounting and his loyalists using heavy weapons against civilians, a top United Nations official said today. “The deteriorating security situation and the …

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]]> Head of UN Rural Development Agency Set to Offer Help on Visit to Drought-hit Kenya http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/un-rural-development-agency-aid-assistance-kenya Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:53:45 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8034 24 March 2011 – The head of the United Nations rural development agency is set to arrive in Kenya on Saturday to offer assistance to the Horn of Africa nation, where nearly 2.4 million poor people in rural areas are struggling to get enough to eat as a result of the recent drought. The visit …

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]]> The Libyan Crisis and The Western Double Standard http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-libyan-crisis-and-the-western-double-standard http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-libyan-crisis-and-the-western-double-standard#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:24:31 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7988 Why not Ivory Coast?

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-libyan-crisis-and-the-western-double-standard/feed 1 Why Ex-President Gbagbo Must Stop Killing Innocent Civilians and Leave http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/why-ex-president-gbagbo-must-stop-killing-innocent-civilians-and-leave http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/why-ex-president-gbagbo-must-stop-killing-innocent-civilians-and-leave#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:10:51 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7983 [ad#Adsense-468×60] Since the disputed presidential election in Cote d’Ivoire last November, in which the then incumbent president Mr. Laurent Gbagbo and Mr. Alassane Ouattara, a former prime Minister contested, it has been bad news over and over again for that small country. And it has been a disaster for Africa; a battle-field for reaping dead …

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