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AFRICA: AU summit calls for permanent African seats
African leaders called for two permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council at the African...
AuSUDAN: Finding will still increase pressure to act
A report submitted to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan last week and leaked over the weekend has...
SudanAFRICA: Aid flows continue post-tsunami
The massive spending on emergency relief following the Asian tsunami, as well as the longer-term...
SERBIA-MONTENEGRO: Poll finds many think Kosovo lost
More Serbian citizens recognise that Kosovo, which has been run by the UN since 1999, is 'lost'...
INTERNATIONAL: Millennium Development Goals reborn?
This month has brought the issues of poverty, vulnerability and indebtedness in poor countries to...
InternationalCOLOMBIA: UN suspends mediation efforts
The UN yesterday announced that it was suspending attempts to mediate between the government and...
ColombiaSERBIA-MONTENEGRO: Think-tank warns of Kosovo danger
The situation in Kosovo could descend into war unless ethnic Albanians' aspirations for...
SUDAN: Peace still precarious despite agreement
The peace agreement signed by the government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army...
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