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Mogadishu, 27 November 2010 - Somalia's Parliament endorsed the new Cabinet appointed by the new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. [State Ministers] [Ministers] [Deputy Ministers]

Hosting Georg Charpentier, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Relief Coordinator in Sudan. Read the full transcript

KABUL - The United Nations strongly welcomes today's certification of the final results for 34 out of the 35 constituencies in the 18 September Wolesi Jirga elections by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC)…

On certification of final results by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission 24 November 2010 - The United Nations strongly welcomes today's certification of the final results for 34 out of the 35 constituencies in the…

Communiqué of the 16 th Extra-Ordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government. Addis Ababa, 23 November 2010

Nairobi, 22 November 2010 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga, today called on the Transitional Federal Parliament to exercise the spirit of…

Communiqué of the Conference on the AU Support to the Implementation of the Djibouti Peace Process for Somalia. Bujumbura, 18 November 2010

On 15 November 2010, SRSG Mahiga left for Bujumbura, Burundi, to attend an African Union sponsored conference on the role of the African Union in support of the implementation of the Djibouti peace process for Somalia.

6 November 2010 - Today the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) established a new operations centre in the capital Kabul. This new centre will be the hub of UNAMA's mission, and will enable us to increase…

05 November - At approximately 0225, unidentified gunmen shot a UNAMID peacekeeper as he was guarding a water point 3 kilometers north east of Kutum in North Darfur. UNAMID forces nearby retaliated with fire which forced the…