News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
KABUL - Afghanistan registered record levels of opium poppy cultivation this year, with the illicit crop being cultivated in an estimated 224,000 hectares of land, according to a United Nations-backed survey released in the…
12 November 2014 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau -SRSG-, Miguel Trovoada, is heading to New York for high-level meetings on Guinea-Bissau.On 18 November, SRSG Trovoada will…
The Head of UNOCA deeply concerned The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, is deeply concerned about the impact of Boko…
Tripoli, 11 November 2014 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Bernardino Leon traveled to Tripoli on Tuesday 11 November 2014 as part of his efforts to listen to the views of the parties and various…
Your Excellency Mr President, the co-chair, Your Excellency Mr Prime Minister, Honourable Ministers, Members of Parliament, distinguished representatives from the Puntland, the Interim Jubba Administration, Benadir, Galmadug…
11 November 2014 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced yesterday the appointment of Cassam Uteem of Mauritius as his Special Envoy and Head of the United Nations Electoral Observation Mission in Burundi…
10 November 2014 - On Sunday 09 November, I embarked on another mission in Libya, to continue the consultations with the Libyan stakeholders on the way forward and how to put the political transition back on track. I met in…
Baidoa – The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, paid an official visit to Baidoa on 9 November. She assessed the implementation of a national programme for disengaged…
10 November 2014 - A team of the UN Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM), in the country since last week, visited over the weekend the city of Bafatá, east, accompanied by the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary…
Kismayo – The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, paid an official visit to Kismayo on 6 November, where she met with Ahmed Mohamed Islam Madobe, Leader of the Interim…
06 November 2014 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) takes note of the Supreme Court’s ruling, and will be studying it closely. In this regard, UNSMIL is consulting closely with Libyan stakeholders across…
Kinshasa, 6 November 2014 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Said Djinnit, attended the third meeting of the Ministers of Mines of the Members States of the International Conference on…