This year’s International Youth Day theme, “Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond,” underscores the transformative role of young people in adapting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to local realities. It is a…
International Youth Day 2025: Youth for Peace and Development By Sumire Hayakawa- Ivanovic , Digital Communications Intern at the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) As a young intern with the Communications…
International Youth Day 2025: Youth for Peace and Partnership By Jingyi Olivia Zhang, Digital Communications Intern at the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) | (2024 Cohort) This year’s International Youth Day…
On 5 August, Ambassador Eloy Alfaro de Alba, Permanent Representative of Panama to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August, and Ambassador Dr. Mohamed Khaled, Permanent Representative…
On 29 and 30 July, SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga participated in the 13th High-Level Dialogue on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance, which took place in Accra, Ghana. The biennial event was held under the theme: “Justice…
From 24-26 July, UNOAU participated in a workshop organized by the AUC Peace Support Operations Division (PSOD) in Debre-Zeit, Ethiopia, as part of the process to develop a training package for Police Senior Management in the…
From 23-24 July, the AU, jointly with the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF), and with support of UNOAU, organized a pilot high-level training related to the AU’s Operational Guidance Note (OGN) on Oversight…
From 17-21 July, UNOAU participated in an AU workshop to validate the Monitors Handbook for the AU Monitoring Verification and Compliance Mission (AU-MVCM) in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The workshop was attended by…
On 17 July, UNOAU participated in a workshop organized by the African Union Commission at the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa. This was the second session in a series, following an earlier workshop held from 10…
On 12 July the AU convened the 4th Policy Session of the African Union’s Inter-Regional Knowledge Exchange (I-RECKE) on Early Warning and Conflict Prevention in Malabo, held on the margins of the 7th Mid-Year Coordination…
From 09–11 July 2025, UNOAU, in collaboration with the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), provided technical support to the AU in assessing knowledge and skill gaps in the performance of staff…
On 3 July, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council for the month of July, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, met with the Ambassador of Uganda to Ethiopia and…