Press Releases

Dakar, 16 June 2023 - Following his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, today began his…

HUDAYDAH, 13 June 2023 – UNMHA's Head of Mission and Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee Major General (rtd) Michael Beary briefed on the situation in Hudaydah in a closed session of the Security Council briefing…

The Secretary-General strongly condemns today’s attack by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion followed by direct small arms fire against a patrol of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization…

Bamako, 9 June 2023 - The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) strongly condemns today’s attack, 9 June, on one of its security patrols in Ber town, Timbuktu region. The patrol…

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro chaired a regular Tripartite meeting with senior officers of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at a UN position in Ras al…

The historic city of Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, hosted from 31 May to 1 June 2023, a visit from a significant delegation of donors to the United Nations Trust Fund for Peace and Security in Mali. Led by the Norwegian…

UNSMIL takes note of the outcome of the work of the 6+6 HoR-HCS Committee which met in Bouzniqa, Kingdom of Morocco, from 22 May to 6 June 2023 to develop draft electoral laws for the presidential and parliamentary elections…

The International Mediation remains actively involved in efforts to help the Malian Parties complete the implementation of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement resulting from the Algiers Process as soon as possible…

This World Environment Day is a call to beat plastic pollution. Every year, over 400 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide – one third of which is used just once. Every day, the equivalent of over 2000 garbage trucks…

HUDAYDAH, 5 June 2023 – The United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) expresses deep concern over the recent reported ceasefire violations south of the Hudaydah governorate involving civilian casualties…