News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Tripoli, 11August 2014 - The Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Libya, Tarek Mitri, continues to serve as head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Mr. Mitri will hand over his duties to…
Dakar, 11 August 2014 - Mr. Said Djinnit, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa, met today in Nouakchott with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Islamic Republic…
Dakar, 11 August 2014 - Mr. Said Djinnit, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa, met today in Nouakchott with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Islamic Republic…
KABUL - As the audit process continues for the results of Afghanistan’s Presidential election run-off, top UN officials today urged the full commitment of the parties for the unprecedented and vital endeavour that should be…
Geneva, 08 August 2014 - We are very much concerned about the situation in Libya, where a conflict between multiple armed groups has been raging primarily in Benghazi and Tripoli. Frequent indiscriminate shelling of heavily…
Tripoli, 07 August 2014 – The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, is leading a delegation from the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to Tripoli for…
06 August 2014 - The Minister of Women, Family and Social Cohesion, Bilony Nhassé, today hosted a meeting under her request with the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Guinea-Bissau, Marco…
05 August 2014 - The representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for West and Central Africa is on a four days working visit to the country, to meet with the new Bissau-Guinean authorities, as well…
05 August 2014 - The first ceremony for the presentation of medals for good service to ECOMIB in Guinea-Bissau was held in a hotel in Bissau where 15 officers were awarded - including one woman - by national and international…
KABUL - A United Nations-affiliated body responsible for promoting humane and orderly migration is supporting a nationwide campaign to raise awareness among Afghans population – particularly Afghan youth – about the hazards…
Mogadishu – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, welcomed the addition of Himan and Heeb as a signatory to an agreement in principle to form a regional administration in…
Mogadishu – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, welcomed the addition of Himan and Heeb as a signatory to an agreement in principle to form a regional administration in…