Antonio Guterres

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UN Chief Guterres In Somalia To Discuss Famine Threat

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Somalia Tuesday to discuss a hunger crisis which has pushed the...

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EU To Host Syria Conference April 5 With UN

The European Union will host a conference on the post-conflict future of Syria with the United Nations in Brussels on...

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UN Envoy For Western Sahara Quits

The UN envoy for Western Sahara has resigned after leading efforts for eight years to settle the conflict between...

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Nigerian Women Displaced By Boko Haram Hold Protest

Thousands of Nigerian women forced from their homes by Boko Haram jihadists held a protest on Sunday to demand better...

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UN Chief To Visit Kenya As Famine Threatens Region

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Kenya on Sunday for talks with leaders on regional issues, his...

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UN Security Council Visit To Draw Attention To Lake Chad Crisis

UN Security Council envoys on Thursday travel to Africa's Lake Chad region, where famine, the Boko Haram insurgency,...

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Trade Rises As Tensions Ease On WSahara Contested Road

Trade has picked up on a contested road in Western Sahara on Morocco's border with Mauritania after tensions eased...

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Polisario Dismisses Morocco Pullback As ‘window Dressing’

Polisario separatists have dismissed as "window dressing" Morocco's announcement of a pullback from a zone of the...

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Morocco To Pull Out of UN Buffer Zone

It was annexed by Morocco in 1975 - a move resisted by the Polisario Front. Morocco is to pull out of a UN buffer zone...

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With Trump At Helm, US Takes Seat At UN Rights Council

The United States will on Monday claim its seat at the UN Human Rights Council under the new presidency of Donald...

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Morocco King Urges UN Measures On Western Sahara

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take "urgent measures" following months of tensions with...

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UN Warns Burundi’s President Over Fourth Term

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza against seeking a fourth term,...

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Morocco Urges UN To End Polisario ‘provocation’

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday asked the United Nations to take urgent measures to end "provocation" by the...

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UN Syria Talks Open As Blast Reflects Fragility of Truce

The first full day of a fresh round of Syria peace talks began in Geneva Friday as a suicide bombing killed 42,...

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UN Needs $4.4 Bn For Famine Relief In Four Countries

UN aid agencies need $4.4 billion in emergency funding to address famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UN...

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Israel-US Team To Discuss Settlements Says Netanyahu

Israel and the US will set up a joint team to discuss Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Prime Minister...

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Third S.Sudan Military Official Quits Over ‘ethnic Crimes’

A third top South Sudanese military official has resigned, accusing President Salva Kiir's regime of war crimes and...

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UN Chief Hails The Gambia’s Decision To Stay

Antonio Guterres, has hailed The Gambia on its decision to remain a party to the Rome Statute The United Nations (UN)...

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S. Sudan Minister Quits, Rejoins Machar’s Rebels

South Sudan's labour minister resigned Friday and declared allegiance to rebel leader Riek Machar, making him the...