News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Mogadishu - Somalia’s premier institution of higher learning - the Somali National University - was handed back yesterday to the federal government by the African Union (AU) Mission in Somalia after ten years of being used…
Nairobi – Enhancing the institutional capacity to register and manage Somalia’s political parties through the National Independent Electoral Commission (NIEC) was the focus of a three-day meeting, which opened yesterday in…
HERAT - The role of young people in Afghanistan’s peace process was a subject of a discussion at a recent UN-backed radio roundtable organized by the regional office of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and…
Tunis, 10 July 2017 – The local council of Bani Walid has committed to release, rehabilitate and reintegrate children associated with armed groups. Within the framework of UNICEF’s national campaign ‘Together for Children’…
New York, July 11/ 2017. The Secretary-General welcomes the establishment of a new United Nations political mission in Colombia tasked with verifying the commitments in the Peace Agreement relating to the reintegration of…
The UN Country Team in the occupied Palestinian territory released a report today that reviews the socio-economic status of the Gaza Strip, a decade after the events of 2006-2007 that saw a violent take-over of the Strip by…
New York, July 11/ 2017. The Secretary-General welcomes the establishment of a new United Nations political mission in Colombia tasked with verifying the commitments in the Peace Agreement relating to the reintegration of…
Bogota, 10 July 2017. The United Nations Security Council decided today to establish a second United Nations Mission in Colombia, with a mandate to verify the reincorporation of the FARC EP into civilian life and the…
MAHMOOD RAQI - The Kapisa provincial government, civil society and private sector have launched a joint social media campaign in a bid to make public information more accessible to the people. “Social media will facilitate…
KABUL - The following is a transcript of a press conference on 10 July 2017 about the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board Meeting. PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan…
Bogota, 10 July 2017. The United Nations Security Council decided today to establish a second United Nations Mission in Colombia, with a mandate to verify the reincorporation of the FARC EP into civilian life and the…
The Secretary-General welcomes the announcement by the Governments of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Russian Federation and the United States of America of a de-escalation zone and arrangements to support a ceasefire…