On 17 and 18 July, UNOAU supported and participated in a Consultative Meeting on Strategic Priorities and Guidelines on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Transformation/Reform (SST/SSR)…
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE FOR NELSON MANDELA INTERNATIONAL DAY 18 July 2024 Nelson Mandela showed us the extraordinary difference one person can make in building a better world. And as the theme of this year’s Nelson…
On 17 July, SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga met with H.E. Stephan Auer, the outgoing Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, following his four-year tenure in…
On 10 and 15 July, SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga attended the opening and closing ceremonies of the “Preparatory Meeting to Launch an Inter-Sudanese Political Dialogue Process”, organized by the African Union Commission (AUC)…
On 5 July, SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga participated in the AUPSC’s 1220th meeting to brainstorm on the Summit of the Future scheduled on 22 and 23 September. The meeting, held in open session, was chaired by the Permanent…
On 3 and 4 July, the AU High-Level Panel on Sudan and the AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) convened the high-level ‘Sudan Women’s Dialogue’ in Kampala, Uganda. The conference brought together women…
On 2 and 3 July, SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga attended the Aswan Forum in Cairo, Egypt. This year’s edition focused on ‘Africa in a Changing World: Re-envisioning Global Governance for Peace and Development’, underscoring how…
UNOAU and the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), an Egyptian public agency established in 1994 by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, signed a Memorandum of…
From 17-29 June 2024, UNOAU, in collaboration with the British Peace Support Team, supported ECOWAS in the development and delivery of a Military Pre-Deployment Training of Trainers Course in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the…
On 18- 20 June, UNOAU and the African Union Commission, PAPs department, jointly organized a training workshop aimed at building the capacity of Civil Society Organizations in Africa to enhance the achievement of gender…
Hate speech is a marker of discrimination, abuse, violence, conflict, and even crimes against humanity. We have seen this play out from Nazi Germany to Rwanda, Bosnia and beyond. There is no acceptable level of hate speech…
Every year on 21 September, the United Nations invites the world to mark the International Day of Peace. This year’s focus is on “Cultivating a culture of peace”. In a world mired by conflict, inequalities and discrimination…