http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2008, 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=27492&Cr=Somalia&Cr1= Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST Nearly 180,000 children in Somalia are acutely malnourished, with 25,000 severely malnourished, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) which has scaled up its nutrition operation to reach more than 50,000 children under the age of five. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27473&Cr=UNESCO&Cr1= Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST Women's rights ministers from 11 countries across Africa's Great Lakes region are gathering today in Kinshasa for a United Nations-organized conference to take steps to set up a regional research and documentation centre on women's rights. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27479&Cr=UNODC&Cr1= Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST Information technology designed to help countries fight crimes such as money-laundering and the financing of terrorism has been installed at Namibia's Financial Intelligence Centre with the help the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27481&Cr=Darfur&Cr1= Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST A contingent of 126 Egyptian engineers today arrived in El Fasher, Darfur, according to the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission (UNAMID). http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27455&Cr=Sudan&Cr1=Aid Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST The Sudanese Government today signed an agreement with United Nations agencies operating in the country on a four-year aid plan covering peacebuilding, governance and the rule of law, employment, education and health care as well as other services. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27463&Cr=Abdallah&Cr1= Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST The United Nations envoy to Somalia told the Security Council today that there were limited choices for bringing peace to the violence-wracked Horn of Africa country, but that the time had come to make a final decision on the best possible option. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27459&Cr=food&Cr1=crisis Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is helping poor farmers to boost their agricultural production in Swaziland, one of many countries suffering as a result of the global food crisis. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27466&Cr=Democratic&Cr1=congo Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST A top UN official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ross Mountain, is visiting North Kivu province with the Congolese Minister of Planning, Olivier Kamitatu, to assess the implementation of the security and stabilization plan for eastern DRC. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27465&Cr=Darfur&Cr1= Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST The head of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) met today with President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan at the mission's headquarters in El Fasher. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27457&Cr=Somalia&Cr1= Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST The first women lawyers association in Somalia has been established in the Somaliland region with the help of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).