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KABUL - More than 100 Afghans attended a two-day conference in Mazar-e Sharif, the capital city of Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh, to discuss ways to improve law enforcement and justice mechanisms at local and…

Mogadishu - Madam President, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Council. I am particularly pleased to be doing so alongside the new Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Head of…

KABUL - Afghans marked the International Day of the Girl Child with speeches and cultural performances at an event that drew hundreds of participants in the country’s capital city of Kabul. International Day of the Girl Child…

KABUL - A group of Afghan civil society organizations presented today an open letter to Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, highlighting a 10-point roadmap for peace and urging the president to take action on…

10 October 2014 - This is to clarify the facts regarding measures UNMIL has undertaken to ensure no further transmission of EVD after one of its medical personnel recently contracted the disease. Following the discovery on 5…

Mogadishu – The Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Grete Faremo visited Mogadishu today to reiterate the UN’s commitment to its various development projects in Somalia. During the one…

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the targeted attack against an United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Kidal, Mali, on 7 October 2014, in…

The Secretary-General is outraged by today’s attack that took place in Mali and that killed one Senegalese peacekeeper and wounded another. In this second attack in five days against the United Nations Multidimensional…

KABUL - The most senior United Nations human rights official has asked Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani to stay the executions of five men sentenced to death following charges of armed robbery and adultery in the Paghman…

3 October 2014- SRSG Miguel Trovoada has begun this Friday a series of visits to the sub region and outside the continent. The objective is to meet with Heads of State and governments, with the message that Guinea-Bissau has…