http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2009, UN News Centre http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/media/nslogo.gif http://www.un.org/news 140 Latest from the UN News Service http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33022&Cr=Africa&Cr1=industrial Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Armed conflict, inadequate infrastructure, weak governance, limited financing and technological abilities, and policies that stifle entrepreneurship, limit competition and raise the cost of doing business are hindering the industrialization that Africa needs to fully join the global economy, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33023&Cr=xenophob&Cr1= Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33024&Cr=unep&Cr1= Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST More than 2,000 Kenyan youths from across Nairobi, the capital, will kick off a multi-ethnic football tournament this weekend to score goals in a United Nations-backed bid to use the power of sport to promote reconciliation after last year's deadly inter-communal violence as well as environmental conservation. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33025&Cr=food+security&Cr1= Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Libya have agreed on a $71 million programme to boost cooperation over the next five years to strengthen food security and sustainable development in the country. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33027&Cr=liberia&Cr1= Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Liberian girls and women should draw inspiration from the all-female Indian police unit serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to join law enforcement agencies in the service of their own nation, the top UN official in the West African country said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33008&Cr=horn+of+africa&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33007&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today welcomed the arrest of two leaders of a rebel Rwandan militia on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and war crimes in the eastern region of the DRC. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33014&Cr=monuc&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST United Nations peacekeepers helped passengers and provided emergency medical treatment today after an airliner with 117 passengers on board over-ran the airstrip in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33011&Cr=minurcat&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32991&Cr=Africa&Cr1=industrial Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) warned today that Africa must overcome the obstacles to boosting industrial production and gaining a larger share of world trade to benefit from the global economy.