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KABUL - Afghanistan registered record levels of opium poppy cultivation this year, with the illicit crop being cultivated in an estimated 224,000 hectares of land, according to a United Nations-backed survey released in the…

Your Excellency Mr President, the co-chair, Your Excellency Mr Prime Minister, Honourable Ministers, Members of Parliament, distinguished representatives from the Puntland, the Interim Jubba Administration, Benadir, Galmadug…

10 November 2014 - A team of the UN Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM), in the country since last week, visited over the weekend the city of Bafatá, east, accompanied by the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary…

Baidoa – The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, paid an official visit to Baidoa on 9 November. She assessed the implementation of a national programme for disengaged…

Kismayo – The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, paid an official visit to Kismayo on 6 November, where she met with Ahmed Mohamed Islam Madobe, Leader of the Interim…

Hargeisa – The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, has made an official visit to Somaliland, where she attended the High Level Aid Coordination Forum in Hargeisa, and…

KABUL - Senior United Nations officials in Afghanistan welcomed the passing of legislation earlier this week by the Afghan Lower House of Parliament to criminalize underage recruitment in the Afghan National Security Forces…

At a ceremony on 16 October, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) handed over a weapon cutting facility to the Malian Defence Forces at the Kati Army Garrison, located North-East of Bamako. The new facility has…

3 November 2014 - A United Nations Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM) is in the country for a two-week task to conduct a comprehensive review of the mandate of UNIOGBIS.The eleven-man delegation led by Christopher Coleman…

31 October 2014 - UNIOGBIS PIU held on 30-31 October in Bafatá (east) a training workshop on "Building Public Opinion in a Democratic State", the second of four, covering all the nine regions of Guinea-Bissau, in the…