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Training session for women from the Working Group, Women, Youth, Peace and Security in West Africa and the Sahel. June 24, 2019 in Dakar. Photo: UNOWAS CPIO
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As part of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS), UN Women has implemented the women’s peace and security agenda. 1,542 women mediators have been trained to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The…
Photo: IOM
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Mohamed, Issouf, Moussa, and Aghali are members of communities that are affected by migration flows in Niger. A community stabilization project recently launched by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is giving them and 26 other…
UNICEF Mauritanie / Raphaël Pouget / 2019
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The Sahel is one the most water scarce regions in the world. Increasing water scarcity across the region lowers the water levels in traditional wells, forcing people to travel long distances to collect limited quantities of…
Amadou Billa, 56 years old, a vulnerable member of the Toya community, plants "bourgou" (aquatic fodder – Echinochloa stagnina specie) in readiness for the rainy season. Although he is blind, he has participated in training that helps him provide for his family. Bourgou is used for livestock and fish feed, protecting rice cultivations, and as a major source of revenue. WFP/Katia Oslansky.
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The World Food Programme Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa (WFP RBD), is scaling-up its integrated resilience package for the G5 Sahel countries. High levels of food insecurity, limited and unequal access to basic…
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Within the framework of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are joining hands to improve the…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, concluded yesterday a four-day visit in Togo. The objective of the visit…
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The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), together with The Economic Community Of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Commission organized a Workshop to mobilize Togolese stakeholders to help ensure the…
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Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) Rosemary A. DiCarlo today concluded her first official visit to West Africa with a stop in Burkina Faso. The five-day visit also took the Under-Secretary…
Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, briefs the Security Council meeting on peace consolidation in West Africa and the Sahel. New York - 8 Jan 2020.
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Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) briefed, yesterday, the Security Council on the latest report of the…
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The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations’ Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, expresses his outrage and condemnation of the terrorist act on a bus in…
Abuja, 21 December 2019- Speaking at the 56th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, held in Abuja on 21 December 2019, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General…