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British Peacekeepers celebrate Eid al-Adha with community in Gao
A Long Range Reconnaissance Group (LRRG) from the United Kingdom deployed on patrol in the north of Mali to protect civilians were warmly welcomed by the local population and ended up celebrating with them one of the most important festivities of the Muslim calendar. The UK ‘LRRG’, as they are…
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Poupla Paul YOUL : Peacekeeper and artist at the service of Peace
Poupla Paul YOUL is an intelligence executive at the Research and Information Processing Center of the National Gendarmerie of Burkina Faso (CRTI/GN). The purpose of his mission was to collect general information, to exploit it and propose new actions to his chain of command. Now with MINUSMA since…
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Chief Warrant Officer Jeanne d'Arc KOHOU or the needle of solidarity
Chief Warrant Officer Jeanne d'Arc KOHOU is a regular at UN peace operations. Her first mission was to Haiti, from 2011 to 2013, where she oversaw gender issues in a police station within the capital, Port-au-Prince. Her dynamism in the care of victims of gender-based violence (GBV) and the follow…
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Secretary-General’s message for the International Day of Peace
New York, 21 September 2022 Peace is a noble and necessary pursuit, and the only practical pathway to a better, fairer world for all people. Yet in too many places, in too many contexts, we are failing the cause of peace. The theme of this year’s International Day of Peace — “End Racism, Build Peace…
As Delivered: Briefing to the Security Council on the situation in South Sudan by Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of UNMISS, Nicholas Haysom, on 16 September 2022
Madame President, 1. Thank you for the opportunity to brief this Council on the situation in South Sudan. 2. Since 2018, the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) has provided the framework to consolidate South Sudan’s transition from…
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Visit of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa to Angola on the occasion of the Investiture Ceremony of the President and Vice-President of the Republic
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abdou Abarry, makes his first visit to Angola for the occasion of the Investiture Ceremony of the President and Vice-President of the Republic of…
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Secretary-General’s video message for the International Day of Democracy
New York, 15 September 2022 Today marks the 15 th anniversary of the International Day of Democracy. Yet across the world, democracy is backsliding. Civic space is shrinking. Distrust and disinformation are growing. And polarization is undermining democratic institutions. Now is the time to raise…