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NEW YORK - The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, today briefed the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan. Read the Security Council briefing by SRSG Lyons Read the Secretary…

KABUL - The UN Security Council session on the situation in Afghanistan is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 2 March, 10.00 New York time (19:30 Kabul local time) and can be followed live at http://webtv.un.org The…

Hargeisa – The United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Adam Abdelmoula, visited Somaliland to assess the drought situation. He highlighted the…

Somalia’s leaders must put aside their differences and urgently conclude a credible election process, the UN’s senior official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday, noting that national elections are now more…

(As delivered, New York, 15 February 2022) Madame President, Distinguished Members of the Council, Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on the situation in Somalia. I am pleased to do so again together with the…

NEW YORK - The latest quarterly report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the situation in Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations in the country is now available. Read the full report by the Secretary…

The United Nations and its partners are concerned about the resurgence of coups in the sub-region, the latest of which occurred in Burkina Faso on 23 January 2022, following two others in Mali and Guinea. It is in this…

NEW YORK - The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, today briefed the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan. Read the Security Council briefing by SRSG Lyons Read the Security…

KABUL - Statement by the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ms. Deborah Lyons Afghanistan Economic Conference – A New Beginning, 19 January 2022 Excellencies, I congratulate you for the initiative of…

The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) is organizing on 16 and 17 December 2021 a regional seminar on the "Contribution of religious and traditional actors to peacebuilding, conflict prevention and…