A three-day seminar on "The role of journalists and the media in preventing violence, including violent extremism in West Africa and the Sahel", organized by the United Nations Office for West Africa And the Sahel (UNOWAS), in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), started this Monday 12 June in Dakar. To read the full speech of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, click on the link below. (Text in French)

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