The Secretary-General strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou today against the country’s military headquarters and the Embassy of France. In a phone call to President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, the Secretary…

The Secretary-General condemns the killing of three aid workers last night in Rann town in Borno state, Nigeria, following an attack by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. At least one other aid worker remains critically injured…

The members of the Security Council expressed their profound outrage at and condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack committed in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria on 19 February 2018, and the abduction of a large…

The Security Council supports the efforts of ECOWAS to ensure a swift resolution of the crisis and acknowledges its decision of 4 February 2018 to impose sanctions against those obstructing the implementation of the Conakry…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, distributed last week 8 water tanks to 7 different healthcare facilities located in the cities of Sabratha and Az-Zawiyah (60Km and 40 Km west of Tripoli respectively), in order to support…

Tunis, 1 March 2018 – From 1 February to 28 February 2018, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented 146 civilian casualties – 13 deaths and 133 injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya…

26 February 2018, Libya – In light of the existing shortage of essential medical supplies in Beninah, the World Health Organization delivered one NCDC kit and five Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHK) to the Beninha…

SdeM: Thank you, it is true I will be very short - not because of lack of politeness but I have a meeting which has already started with three members of the Security Council - but I wanted to come here directly now. As you…

Acting UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Pernille Kardel today visited the Bekaa, in east Lebanon. She met with Syrian refugees at a tented settlement in Qab Elias and heard their accounts of the challenges they faced…

[delivered by Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative for West Africa] I am pleased to send greetings to this International Conference on Lake Chad, and I commend the Government of Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin…

KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes the Afghan government’s renewed call for unconditional peace talks with the Taliban and the outlining of a framework for peace, presented at the Kabul Process…

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 27 February 2018 – On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region…