18 Jul 2017 - Dakar, 18 July 2017 - Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary General and Chief of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel will start today, Tuesday 18 July 2017, a two-day official visit to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. During his visit, Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas will meet with national authorities. He will hold meeting with members of the diplomatic corps and representatives of the United Nations System in Côte d’Ivoire. 

07 Jun 2017 - The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Switzerland Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, will organize, from 12 to 14 June 2017 in Dakar, a seminar on "The Role of Journalists and the Media in Preventing Violence and Violent Extremism in West Africa and the Sahel". Context:

23 May 2017 - In the framework of the mobilization of new "emergency measures" for the preservation of peace in Burkina Faso and in accordance with the decision of the Executive Committee, chaired by the Secretary-General, on 23 March 2017, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, met this Wednesday 03 May, in Ouagadougou, President, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. (Available in French)

17 May 2017 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, participated in the third Pan African Forum on Migration which took place from 15 to 17 May 2017 in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum which was held under the theme “towards an African Common Position on the Global Compact on Migration”, aimed at developing a draft outcome document expressing African common position on migration.