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Dakar, 09 February 2022 - After having carried out a joint mission with ECOWAS to Burkina Faso on 31 January, and participated in the Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government on the political situation in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, held in Accra, Ghana, on 3 February…

Dakar, 03 February 2022 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, participated today in the Extraordinary of the authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government on the political…

INFORMATION NOTE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ANNADIF TO PARTICIPATE IN ECOWAS EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT ON BURKINA FASO Dakar, 02 February 2022 - After carrying out, on 31 January 2022, a joint mission in Ouagadougou with a ministerial delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…

GENEVA (26 January 2022) – Haiti’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 31 January 2022 in a meeting that will be webcast live . Haiti is one of the States to be reviewed by the UPR Working…

HUDAYDAH, 21 January 2023 – UNMHA is gravely concerned about the recent military hostilities in Hudaydah city that have resulted in the devastating loss of civilian life, multiple injuries and damage to public infrastructure. UNMHA reminds all parties to the conflict to respect their commitments to…

HUDAYDAH, 19 January 2022 — The United Nations Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) welcomes incoming UNMHA Head of Mission and Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee Major General (retired) Michael Beary of Ireland who assumes duty today. Major General Beary brings a wealth…

Click on the following link to view the report (PDF): Report of the Secretary-General António Guterres on the United Nations Support Mission in Libya - 17 January 2022

Tribute to the victims of the earthquake of January 12, 2010 Today, 12 January 2022, the United Nations remembers the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their lives and the many thousands more who sustained permanent injuries in the earthquake that twelve years ago devastated the capital of…

Click on the following link to view the report (PDF): Report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya – 31 December 2021