United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Nicholas Kay of the United Kingdom as his Special Representative for Somalia. He succeeds Augustine Mahiga, who will complete his assignment on 3…

NANGARHAR - At a workshop hosted last week by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in the eastern regional hub of Jalalabad, officials and religious leaders from the country’s four eastern provinces exchanged…

BADAKSHAN - Journalists in Afghanistan’s north-eastern province of Badakhshan have complained about lack of cooperation from the province’s government officials. Speaking at a gathering, Rezwanullah Nezami of a local radio…

KABUL - During a United Nations-backed global campaign to vaccinate children this week, Afghan Government officials are aiming to administer anti-measles and anti-polio vaccines along with additional doses of Vitamin A to…

Yaoundé, 26 April 2013 – The Commission on demarcation of the border between Cameroon and Nigeria has closed its thirty-first (31) session today in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission is composed of…

Yaoundé, 26 April 2013 – The Commission on demarcation of the border between Cameroon and Nigeria has closed its thirty-first (31) session today in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission is composed of…

Yaoundé, 26 April 2013 – The Commission on demarcation of the border between Cameroon and Nigeria has closed its thirty-first (31) session today in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission is composed of…

Yaoundé 25 April 2013 - ... It is always a renewed honour for me to come to Yaoundé on the invitation of Cameroonian authorities, and on this occasion, to preside over this thirty-first Session of the Mixed Commission. Permit…

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - On 26 April, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Head of the Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Miroslav Jenča, attended the "Heart of Asia" Ministerial…

I was honoured to meet with His Beatitude the Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros El-Rai today. It was our first meeting since the Christmas holiday and I wished him, as I wish all the Lebanese people, a new year of peace and…

The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly visited the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Hilweh in south Lebanon today with Ann Dismor, Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in…

UN Special Coordinator Derek Plumbly this morning met Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. He welcomed the Speaker’s efforts to promote agreement between political parties on the election law, and underlined the importance the…