Press Releases

Abuja, 22 July 2011 - This week UN Women and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) are training women leaders to strengthen their mediation capacities in peacebuilding processes to prioritize women’s specific needs. The training session, which runs from 19 to 23 July in Abuja, Nigeria…

Abuja, 22 July 2011 - This week UN Women and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) are training women leaders to strengthen their mediation capacities in peacebuilding processes to prioritize women’s specific needs. The training session, which runs from 19 to 23 July in Abuja, Nigeria…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - SRSG Jenča traveled to Astana, Kazakhstan, on 22 July, for meetings with Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov and other senior Kazakhs officials. Discussions touched upon the current political and security situation in the country as well as preparations for the 20th…

Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, 03 December 2008 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams welcomed Lebanon’s signing today of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo. The Convention, agreed at a diplomatic conference in Dublin (19-30 May), prohibits the use, production…

Nairobi, 20 July 2011 - The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somalipopulation – 3.7 million people – are now in crisis, of whom an estimated 2.8 million people are inthe…

New York, le 19 juillet 2011 - The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack today on the residence in Conakry of President Alpha Condé of Guinea. He stresses that no disagreements or differences justify recourse to violence in a democracy. He calls on all Guineans to refrain from all acts…

Nairobi, 15 July 2011 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has congratulated Somalia's political leadership, in particular, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the Speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, as well as the Parliament, for…

Nairobi, 15 July 2011 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has congratulated Somalia's political leadership, in particular, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the Speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, as well as the Parliament, for…

SRSG's visit in Kanyosha

8 July 2011 - The Security Council today voiced satisfaction with the progress countries in West Africa are making towards greater peace and stability, welcoming the positive developments in post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding, particularly in Guinea and Niger, as well as the end of the violent…