News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
The “broad political consensus” reached in September that ended a two-year stalemate in Somalia must be “preserved and indeed deepened,” the country’s UN envoy told the Security Council on Monday. Although the agreed model of…
Mogadishu – Madam President, Distinguished Members of the Council, Thank you for the opportunity again to update you on the situation in Somalia. I am especially pleased to speak to you today along with the Somali Prime…
KABUL, 22 November - The Afghanistan 2020 Conference will be webcast live on http://webtv.un.org The conference plenary commences 09:00 Geneva local time (12:30 Kabul) Tuesday, 24 November. Official Side Events will take…
NEW YORK - The Secretary-General condemns the rocket attacks in Kabul today which resulted in the death and injury of many civilians. He expresses his deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and wishes a speedy…
GENEVA - The following is a transcript of the remarks delivered by the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, at the ARRIA meeting on Afghanistan. TRANSCRIPT Briefing by the Secretary…
Within the preliminary consultative track of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya held, during the month of October, four consultative sessions through visual communication…
The Museum Casa de la Memoria was the stage for the commemoration of the International Day of Peace in this city, where the Mothers of La Candelaria, Farc's former women combatants, and the music of Ekhymosis were the…
UNOWAS conducted, in September 2020, a survey among young women’s and men’s organizations in 17 countries of the subregion to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people, their activities and the…
Yemen is now in imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades. In the absence of immediate action, millions of lives may be lost. This arises from the combination of a drastic reduction in funding for the…
New York, 20 November 2020 The COVID-19 crisis hit African economies well before the pandemic spread across the continent, with falling demand for African commodities and products, disruptions in trade and travel, reduced…
We are delighted to introduce the Central Asian Water Yearbook which features key water related events and developments in Central Asia and beyond. The Yearbook seeks to ease access to key events of the year for policy and…