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The Sudanese government ordered several aid agencies to leave the country after an arrest warrant was issued for the country's president, a U.N. official said.
A United Nations-contracted helicopter crashed in the Darfur region of Sudan, killing all four crew members aboard, a U.N. spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The military junta in Myanmar will let relief workers into the country to help cyclone victims, the U.N. chief said Sunday at a donor's conference in Yangon.
Officials are calling for a redoubling of efforts after a failed attempt to reach a permanent peace agreement in the war-ravaged north of Uganda.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will not attend the Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony and alerted Chinese officials of his planned absence.
U.N. and African Union envoys took their mission to resolve the Darfur conflict to Juba Thursday for talks with former Sudanese rebels, a U.N. spokeswoman said.
U.N. officials say an agreement between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army is a breakthrough toward ending the conflict.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday a special U.N. envoy is being sent to the region in response to the crumbling situation in Myanmar.
A U.N. employee who had been fired after being linked to the Iraq oil-for-food scandal has been rehired and given two years salary for the embarrassment.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed shock at the assassination of a Sunni member of the commission writing Iraq's new constitution.
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