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  • 25 March 2014 - Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General United Nations 25 Mar 2014

  • UN officials appeal for urgent funding for relief operations in Sudan and South Sudan UN News Centre 25 Mar 2014 -- With the humanitarian situation in Sudan deteriorating and neighbouring South Sudan "imploding," United Nations relief officials today appealed to donors to urgently fund life-saving activities in the two countries, both of which are in desperate need of assistance.
  • South Sudan Receives 'Backing' From International Partners VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- South Sudan's foreign minister says the administration in Juba has received assurances from its international partners, and neighboring countries in the East African region, as well as other African nations that they will not accept any undemocratic military change in government.
  • Ethiopia struggling to cope with South Sudanese refugee influx IRIN 25 Mar 2014 -- With around 1,000 South Sudanese refugees streaming into the Gambela Region of western Ethiopia every week, relief workers and agencies warn of an imminent humanitarian crisis as camps reach capacity and assistance is increasingly stretched.

  • Syria: in address to Arab League Ban underscores need for political solution UN News Centre 25 Mar 2014 -- The international community has a duty to help end Syria's tragic civil war, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasized today at a meeting of Arab leaders in Kuwait, where he stressed that there is no military resolution to the conflict, which "can only be resolved through a political solution."
  • Zimbabwe's demining neglected IRIN 25 Mar 2014 -- In Zimbabwe's sparsely populated northeastern district of Mukumbura, the cattle are trained to move in single file in search of water and pastures, a measure to protect them from anti-personnel landmines.
  • CAR Muslims Ready to Leave Diamond Mining Town VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- Peacekeepers and aid groups are trying to ease tensions between Christians and Muslims in a diamond mining area of the Central African Republic. The town of Boda is one of the last in the western C.A.R. still inhabited by a large number of Muslims. The government has told militiamen there to stop threatening this community, but the fighters say the Muslims must leave.
  • Boko Haram Video Suggests Greater Destruction of Nigerian Prison VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a prison in the northern city Maiduguri earlier this month. This comes amid reports that the death toll and the destruction from the attack was far greater than originally reported.

News Reports

  • Ukrainian Troops In Crimea Face 'Stay Or Go' Dilemma RFE/RL 25 Mar 2014 -- Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchnyov on March 24 ordered Kyiv's Defense Ministry to withdraw all Ukrainian troops from Crimea. But many soldiers and their families have no place to go on the mainland unless Kyiv provides support.
  • Obama: Russia Acting 'Out of Weakness' on Ukraine VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- President Barack Obama said Russia was acting 'out of weakness' and not strength in its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
  • US Lawmakers Worry Ukraine Crisis Will Impact Nuclear Proliferation VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- U.S. senators debating aid to Ukraine say Russia's annexation of Crimea decades after Kyiv surrendered its nuclear arsenal could weaken nuclear non-proliferation efforts around the world. The argument is one of many being voiced on Capitol Hill for a strong U.S. response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.
  • Ukrainian radicals demand Interior Minister's dismissal for Sashko Bily murder VoR 25 Mar 2014 -- The Ukrainian radical group Right Sector demands Interior Minister Arsen Avakov's immediate dismissal and the arrest of members of the Sokil (Falcon) special task force involved in killing nationalist leader Aleksander Muzychko nicknamed Sashko Bily in the Rivne region early on Tuesday.
  • Ukraine leaders' stance seriously threatening Non-Proliferation Treaty - Moscow VoR 25 Mar 2014 -- Russia has rejected the claims of a Ukrainian delegate to the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague that Russia is allegedly threatening the security of nuclear sites in Ukraine. 'This is a pure and simple attempt to shift the blame,' the Russian delegation said in a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday. 'The dysfunctional new Kiev authorities may pose a threat to the security of Ukrainian nuclear sites under the current Ukrainian circumstances but this is definitely not Russia,' it stressed.
  • Joint Statement by the United States and Ukraine The White House 25 Mar 2014
  • Obama: Russia's Illegal Annexation of Crimea Not 'Done Deal' VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he's worried about further encroachment of Russia into Ukraine after the annexation of Crimea.
  • Obama Says Allies Won't Back Down Over Crimea RFE/RL 25 Mar 2014 -- U.S. President Barack Obama has indicated that the United States and its allies will not back down in pressuring Russia over the annexation of Crimea.
  • NATO Concerned About Russian Military Buildup Near Ukraine Border RFE/RL 25 Mar 2014 -- NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has expressed concern about a large increase in Russian troops and armaments along Ukraine's eastern frontier following its annexation of Crimea.
  • Profile: Who Was Right Sector's Oleksandr Muzychko? RFE/RL 25 Mar 2014 -- Oleksandr Muzychko, a prominent member of Ukraine's controversial Right Sector movement, was shot dead overnight in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne.
  • Crimea Dispute Tests Serbian Government's Middle Course RFE/RL 25 Mar 2014 -- Serbia's delicate path between the European Union and traditional partner Russia is being tested as relations between Moscow and the West fray over the crisis in Ukraine's Crimea.
  • Russia Poses No Threat to Ukraine's Nuclear Sites – Russian FM RIA Novosti 25 Mar 2014 -- The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed allegations Tuesday that Moscow is threatening nuclear sites in Ukraine as an attempt to redirect blame for ongoing instability in the country away from the new Ukrainian government.
  • Moscow Reaffirms Ukrainian Servicemen Free to Leave Crimea RIA Novosti 25 Mar 2014 -- Ukraine's military personnel may leave the Crimean Peninsula unhindered, but the Russian military has yet to decide if they will be permitted to take their weapons with them, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
  • Ukraine Far-Right Defense Minister Resigns, Replacement Appointed RIA Novosti 25 Mar 2014 -- The parliament of Ukraine on Tuesday appointed Mykhail Koval as acting defense minister following a narrow vote to allow the resignation of Ihor Tenyukh from the post earlier in the day.
  • Ukraine removes its remaining troops from Crimea and Sevastopol VoR 25 Mar 2014 -- Oleksandr Turchynov, the Verkhovna Rada Speaker and acting president of Ukraine, appointed by Verkhovna Rada signed a decree on the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Crimea and Sevastopol. Meanwhile, in Crimea a temporary working committee was formed in order to address the issue of returning to the republic from the territory of Ukraine military personnel and prisoners.

  • Obama, Legislators Propose Plans to Stop Massive NSA Phone Data Collection VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- Both U.S. President Barack Obama and key committee leaders in Congress are proposing legislation that would end the National Security Agency's collection and storage of massive amounts of Americans' phone records. The proposed changes come in response to a wave of privacy concerns at home and abroad triggered by revelations last year from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
  • White House to propose ending NSA bulk collection of phone records - official VoR 25 Mar 2014 -- President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection and storage of phone records by the National Security Agency but allow the government to access the 'metadata' when needed, a senior administration official said on Monday.

  • US to increase the efficiency of electronic surveillance against Russia VoR 25 Mar 2014 -- US intelligence agencies are trying to achieve the expansion of the zone, which could be monitored by means of American satellites on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic States, as well as improve the efficiency of interception of phone calls and other conversations in these countries.

  • UN human rights office deeply alarmed at mass imposition of death penalty in Egypt UN News Centre 25 Mar 2014 -- The United Nations human rights office said today it is deeply alarmed by the imposition of the death penalty against 529 people in Egypt on Monday after a "cursory" mass trial in which the majority of defendants were not present in court.
  • Egypt Adjourns Second Mass Trial of Brotherhood Members VOA 25 Mar 2014 -- The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and nearly 700 members of the group went on trial Tuesday on charges including murder and inciting violence.

  • New Space Station Crew Readies for Launch on Russian Rocket RIA Novosti 25 Mar 2014 -- The launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three new crewmembers to the International Space Station has been scheduled for early Wednesday morning, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Tuesday.



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