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Secretary-General appoints Major General Gebre Adhana Woldezgu as Force Commander for the UNISFA
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Major General Gebre Adhana Woldezgu of Ethiopia as his new Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Major General Woldezgu succeeds Major General Tesfay Gidey Hailemichael of…
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Security Council Press Statement on Attack against United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack against the camp of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Aguelhok, which occurred on 5 April 2018 and caused the death of two Chadian peacekeepers and injured ten…
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MINUSCA condemns losses of life in overnight attack in Tagbara
On the morning of 3 April, at 5 a.m., the MINUSCA temporary base in Tagbara village, located 60 km northeast of Bambari, in Ouaka prefecture, came under attack from anti-Balaka elements. The peacekeepers and assailants engaged in a firefight over the course of several hours, during which a blue…
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Reconciliation Technical Committee identifies concrete steps to implement Tawergha Misrata Agreement; UN to play central role
Tunis, 30 March 2018 - The Technical Committee of the “Towards National Reconciliation in Libya” project met this week with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Ghassan Salamé and the State Minister for IDP Affairs Youssef Jalala to discuss the safe return of the Tawergha community…
UNFPA and UNHCR assist more than 8,500 displaced women across Libya
In order to respond to the growing needs of vulnerable displaced women across Libya, UNHCR and UNFPA, with the support of German funding, are currently distributing 8,517 dignity and hygiene kits in 16 different locations in the areas of Tripoli, Misrata, Sabha, Nafusa Mountains, Bani Walid…
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Press Communiqué of the Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions, 28 March 2018
The 43rd round of the Geneva International Discussions has just concluded. In Working Group I, the participants reviewed the security situation on the ground. While the overall security situation was assessed as relatively calm and stable, the Co-Chairs reiterated their strong concern over the…
Personnel appointments: Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo of United States - Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Rosemary DiCarlo of the United States, President of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs…
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High level regional colloquium on challenges and prospects of political reforms in West Africa (2015 – 2017)
As part of its mandate for preventing conflicts and sustaining peace, the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), organized, in partnership with ECOWAS Commission, on 26 – 27 March 2018, in Abidjan, a high-level colloquium on « challenges and prospects of political reforms in…