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New York: The United Nations is helping Tajikistan, a mountainous country prone to natural disasters, enhance its capacity to withstand catastrophes such as floods, avalanches and earthquakes which often destroy homes in the Central Asian nation.

New York: The United Nations is gathering supplies for some 130,000 people in southern Africa on alert for potential evacuation from flood-risk zones following weeks of torrential rains in northern Mozambique and neighbouring Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

New York: More than three years after the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a complete halt to fighting between Israel and the Lebanese group Hizbollah, the situation in the region remains fragile, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, which also raises concerns over increasingly bellicose rhetoric warning of renewed fighting.

New York: The world's endangered great apes received a boost from the 2009 United Nations Year of the Gorillas, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has said, citing the funds raised for conservation projects and the increase in publicity on the plight of the animals.

New York: Violence against women devastates individuals and societies alike, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said, calling for united action to demand accountability, end impunity and support the victims of this global scourge.

Due to the sound economic policies put in place by the Zambian authorities to deal with the global economic crisis, the Zambian economy has proven its resilience. For 2010 and over the medium-term, growth is expected to remain strong. Inflation, having fallen to single digits, is projected to moderate further. International reserves have risen to 30-year highs owing in part to the allocation of Special Drawing Rights by the IMF.

New York: The United Nations and the Government of Timor-Leste will be consulting closely on how the world body can best support the country's efforts to secure a stable and prosperous future between now and 2012, when it is expected that the UN mission will close its operations there, said a senior official.

New York: One in three Africans is chronically hungry, despite $3 billion spent on food aid for the continent annually and $33 billion in food imports, the director of the food security at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned.

New York: The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it would welcome an independent inquiry into its operations in Somalia, after a United Nations monitoring group alleged that contractors have diverted the agency's food aid away from the hungry.

New York: All parties involved in Nepal's peace process must demonstrate their commitment to peace and the democratic process and not get bogged down in short-term political maneuvering, the top United Nations political official has said.