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KABUL - The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted mental health services and gender-sensitive relief, among its key concerns, as relief efforts continuing in aid of victims of a deadly landslide that…

19 May 2014 - With ballot counting underway in Guinea Bissau's presidential run-off, the United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the successful conclusion of the second round of voting…

19 May 2014 - The Secretary-General welcomes the generally peaceful and orderly conduct of yesterday's run-off presidential election in Guinea-Bissau. Once again, Bissau-Guineans have demonstrated their commitment to peace…

16 May 2014 - The Secretary-General continues to follow closely the situation in Guinea-Bissau on the eve of the 18 May run-off presidential election, which is expected to bring the transition period to an end. He commends…

KABUL - A senior United Nations official in Afghanistan has called for making next month’s Presidential run-off elections as transparent as possible, to candidates as well as to the public, so that the outcome will reflect…

Jowhar - The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), Nicholas Kay today made his first visit to the town of Jowhar, in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region. Mr Kay is the highest-ranking UN official to visit…

Mogadishu - Speaking at the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu today, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), Nicholas Kay highlighted the political, economic and security progress that…

Several town hall meetings have been held in recent months in Bomi, Gbarpolu and Grand Cape Mount Counties to assure citizens of their security in the wake of UNMIL’s military withdrawal from the Western region of Liberia…

15 May 2014 - The Guinea-Bissau Configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) welcomes the successful conduct of the legislative elections and the first round of presidential elections, held on 13 April, and commends…

8 May 2014 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Guinea-Bissau (SRSG), José Ramos-Horta, has promised to intensify international contacts for campaigns against HIV/AIDS in the country at a meeting with…