8 Goals for Africa music video to be screened across South Africa during World Cup

Johannesburg, South Africa – Helen Clark, the chair of the UN Development Group which brings together all UN agencies working in development, today launched 8 Goals for Africa, a campaign song by eight of Africa’s best known musicians, calling for commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight internationally-agreed goals designed to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, and maternal and child deaths by 2015.

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Asmara - As a member country of the United Nations, Eritrea has participated at the 13 th session of the Universal Periodic Review of working group in Geneva on March 17 2010. The review of Eritrea was held on November 30 2009 with all the relevant provisions contained in Council resolution 5/1. More »

Asmara – The United Nations Resident Humanitarian coordinator and UNDP Representative Dr. Mamadou Diallo presented credentials to the President of the state of Eritrea H.E. President Isaayas Afewerki on 20th February, 2010. More »

Asmara – As the result of the border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia some 60,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and 10,000 rural expellees were sheltered in emergency camps in harsh condition in the most war affected areas of Debub and Gash Barka and Southern Red Sea regions. More »

Asmara – On 24 March the United Nations information office(UNO) in Asmara organized a workshop for representatives of ministries and civil society organizations to mark World Meteorological Day. More »