News from our Missions
On 10 May, UNOAU and Amani Africa convened a Policy Dialogue 'Towards a Renewed AU-UN Partnership: Financing of African Union-led Peace Support Operations’. Opening remarks were delivered by the Program Director of Amani…
On 10 May, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the AU and Head of UNOAU, Parfait Onanga-Ayanga paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU, Sophia…
On 10 May, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the AU (SRSG) and Head of UNOAU, Parfait Onanga-Ayanga met with the Ambassador of Brazil and Permanent Representative to the AU, Jandyr Ferreira Do Santos, to…
Recalling the proclamation in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly that established 03 May as World Press Freedom Day, the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for West Africa and the…
I am deeply alarmed by developments in Gaza after Israel launched a military operation this morning targeting members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ). The Israeli airstrikes inside Gaza resulted in the killing…
I am deeply disturbed by the 7 May demolition by Israeli authorities of a European Union-funded Palestinian primary school for the children of Jubbet adh Dhib village, east of Bethlehem, in Area C of the occupied West Bank…
Heads of State and Government from the Great Lakes Africa region, the African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, and representatives from the United Nations led by Secretary-General António Guterres, gathered…
The Trilateral Mechanism (comprised of African Union-Intergovernmental Authority on Development -United Nations) welcomes the Saudi-American initiative and hopes that the technical talks between representatives of the…
Last month’s discriminatory decision by the Taliban de facto authorities to ban Afghan women from working for the United Nations (UN) in Afghanistan seriously undermines our work, including our ability to reach all people in…
The policy dialogue jointly convened by Amani Africa and the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) will take place in a hybrid format on 10 May at 16:00 EAT. If would like to participate virtually here is the…
From 3 to 5 May, UNOAU participated in a policy dialogue on ‘Advancing Youth Peacebuilding Agenda Through Knowledge’ organized by the AUC’s Youth for Peace (Y4P) Africa Program together with the African Peacebuilding Network…
In a round of meetings with Lebanese representatives, UN Special Coordinator Joanna Wronecka stressed the urgent need for solutions to end the over six months presidential vacuum in Lebanon. The Special Coordinator underlined…