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A comprehensive United Nations report warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

A lucrative cocaine trade is flooding West Africa, which is fast becoming a key transit hub for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine smuggled to Europe.

Conflict, women's health and football are some of the issues that African leaders discussed during their two-day summit in Addis Ababa.

A new strain of influenza has a dangerous affect on both the weak and the strong, which has generated a global threat of massive proportions!

The United Nations Security Council, unanimously passed an anti-proliferation resolution calling on all states to rid themselves of their nuclear weapons.

The Darfur Peace Agreement has hardly lived up to its name but Special Envoys from the United Nations and African Union are trying to convince rebels to sign the pact.

With women joining national military and police in greater numbers, it is critical that Member States contribute even more female personnel to the United Nations.

Jeffrey Sachs makes a clear case how to address global challenges in ways that will be economically beneficial, ecologically positive and reduce conflict for all.

"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time," says U.S. economist Jeffrey D. Sachs in his milestone book "The End of Poverty".