KABUL - The Government of Afghanistan launched today its National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons with the aim to set out a “comprehensive, effective and realistic” framework to address the issue of displacement in…

Over the past months, I have issued a number of public statements urging all groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) engaged in the on-going conflict to immediately cease the violence, and warning them that those alleged…

The two leaders had their first meeting today under the auspices of the UN Secretary General’s Good Offices mission. The meeting was held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere and the two leaders have agreed to the following…

2014-02-11 DSASG Joint Statement

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - On 10-11 February 2014, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNRCCA, Miroslav Jenča, visited Astana to meet with the Speaker of the Senate Kassym-Jomart Tokaev, Minister of…

(Near verbatim transcript) JSRS : Good afternoon everyone. I’m not sure that we’re going to meet everyday as we did the previous time, but I will certainly come every time I have something to tell you. Today I don’t have much…

KABUL - A United Nations-backed high-level anti-corruption body has identified “illegal practices and weak processes” for the appointment and training of prosecutors in Afghanistan, which contribute to the lack of prosecution…

Tripoli, Libya - February 10 2014 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Libya, in partnership with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), has organized a series of “Inclusive Constitution”…

Bangui, 10 February, 2014 - The violence that has engulfed the city of Bangui for several weeks was this weekend punctuated by the killing of Jean-Emmanuel Ndjaroua, a member of the National Council transition (CNT), by…

Mogadishu - The Japanese ambassador Tatsushi Terada handed over today office equipment to the Somali Police Force (SPF), procured and delivered through the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), in a further sign of the…

KABUL - Reversing a decline in civilian casualties recorded in 2012, the number of civilians killed or injured in Afghanistan’s armed conflict increased by 14 per cent in 2013, according to a new United Nations report…

Bangui, 7 February 2014 - Today, the Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office for Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic (BINUCA), General Babacar Gaye, was…