High-Level Meeting on Africa's Development Needs
22 September – High-Level Meeting on Africa's Development Needs

UN appeals for aid to help Central Africans break ‘circle of poverty and conflict’
14October – The United Nations humanitarian wing today appealed for donors to provide another $26 million to support its aid activities in the impoverished Central African Republic (CAR), where more than 200,000 people remain displaced from their homes by persistent conflict and banditry over the past two years. FULL STORY>>

Improved African aviation safety targeted at UN forum
14October – The United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is seeking to boost air safety in Africa, organizing workshops and fine-tuning in-air flight separation regulations. FULL STORY>>

Corruption in Africa in the cross-hairs of UN-sponsored conference
14October – Scholars, policy makers and civil society leaders from within and outside Africa are currently meeting in Addis Ababa in a three-day United Nations-sponsored conference aimed at giving momentum to the fight against corruption on the continent. FULL STORY>>

Gorillas have UN ally in fight for survival
14October – United Nations agencies are stepping up efforts to save gorillas in the wild, with three of the four subspecies already critically endangered as humans’ close relative faces multiple threats ranging from hunting to destruction of habitat to the effects of armed conflicts and diseases. FULL STORY>>

Fighting on two fronts in eastern DR Congo uproots over 150,000 – UN
14October – More than 150,000 people have been driven from their homes in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past two months by fighting on two fronts, with dissident Congolese and Ugandan rebels, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, announcing efforts to boost relief aid. FULL STORY>>

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