Armed conflict in Afghanistan killed 763 civilians and injured 1,495 in the first three months of this year, the United Nations mission there said Thursday.
Silhouette of a detained soldier in Liberia. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 25 Jan 13 Marcel Akpovo, Chief of Human Rights Protection Service and Representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in…
Female students marching on the streets of Monrovia to commemorate International Human Rights Day. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 10 Dec 12 In 2005, in line with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended the…
Birds and stray animals have been devouring mangoes left behind by fleeing residents of South Sudan’s Greater Kajokeji, a joint UNMISS-IGAD mission to the area was told this week. “Kajo-Keji is covered with mango trees almost…
Prison inmates attend a meeting with UNMIL personnel at the Kakata Central Prison, Margibi County. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 14 June 12 The Principal Rule of Law Officer manages the justice, corrections and security…
Official certification ceremony of the winners of the presidential and representative elections at the National Elections Commission (NEC) in Monrovia. Photo: Albert G. Farran | UNMIL | 4 Jan 18 The National Elections…
Bhofal Chambers, newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia is sworn in at the first session of the 54th Legislature in Monrovia. Photo: Albert G. Farran | UNMIL | 16 Jan 18 The House of Representatives…
Regional organizations, including the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), have historically played a significant role in maintaining peace and security in Liberia. UNMIL’s Political…
A Lebanese Armed Forces officer checks the route for a joint foot patrol along the Blue Line with an Indonesian peacekeeper in the vicinity of El Adeisse, south Lebanon. By Tilak Pokharel ‘Foot patrols up by nearly 60 per…
While Malians must ensure the successful holding of elections this year, their priority should be the implementation of the 2015 peace agreement, a senior United Nations official said Wednesday.
The lives of six guards and their driver were taken Monday during an attack on the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation in the Virunga Park, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…
UNIFIL and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) today paid last respects with full honours to Corporal Mercy Adade of the Ghanaian Contingent, who passed away at the age of 36 in the early morning of 5 April following short…