Press Releases

20 January 2011 - Three of the students injured during a shooting incident at a high-school in El Fasher, North Darfur, on 18 January, have been evacuated by local authorities to Khartoum for medical treatment. One of them is…

Djibouti, 20 January 2011 – The Joint Security Committee (JSC) met today, under the co-chairmanship of Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Cooperation and Planning, Dr. Augustine Mahiga…

Djibouti, 20 January 2011 – The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, along with the Special Representative of the…

New York, 14 January 2011 – SRSG Mahiga thanked the Council for adopting Resolution 1964 (2010) on 22 December 2010, which approved the expansion of AMISOM. He also stated that in this final leg of the transition, the gains…

NEW YORK - The members of the Security Council heard a briefing today by the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, received an assessment of the situation in Afghanistan…

Djibouti, 17 January 2011 – Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, today thanked the Government of Japan, UN partners and regional organizations for their support to…

Djibouti, 17 January 2011 – Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, today thanked the Government of Japan, UN partners and regional organizations for their support to…

17 January 2011 - UNAMID conducted yesterday a short range patrol to Sereef, Kalaka and Um Elkura villages, located respectively 11 km, 16 km and 16 km north of Khor Abeche, South Darfur, and found the localities deserted…

New York, 17 January 2011 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Christian Manahl of Austria as his Deputy Special Representative for Somalia.

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