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The Secretary-General strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou today against the country’s military headquarters and the Embassy of France. In a phone call to President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, the Secretary…

Maria do Rosário Lopes Pereira Gonçalves, Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) in Cabo Verde
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Maria do Rosário Lopes Pereira Gonçalves did not aim to climb the judiciary ladder in her country, Cabo Verde. She only wanted “to be different from the women who were part of her daily life” in her native Santiago Island…

M. Simon-Pierre Nanitelamio, Deputy Director, UN Electoral Assistance Division (EAD)
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The UN plays an important role in the organization of various elections throughout the world. Simon-Pierre Nanitelamio is, since February 2017, the Deputy Director of the Electoral Assistance Division (EAD/DAE) of the United…

Electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire in 2011. © UN
While most elections in West Africa have been held in a peaceful environment in recent years, various acts of violence have been recorded. What is the nature of this violence and how to eradicate it for good? Since the 1990s…

Partial legislative elections. Côte d’ivoire 2011. Ballot box. ©UN
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In coordination with national, regional and international actors, UNOWAS works to ensure that elections are peaceful and credible. For the first time since the creation of the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) in…

Steering Committee Meeting of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) - 27 October 2017
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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, chaired, on 27 October 2017 in Dakar, the Steering Committee Meeting of…






