Press Releases

Abuja, 22 July 2011 - This week UN Women and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) are training women leaders to strengthen their mediation capacities in peacebuilding processes to prioritize women’s specific…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - SRSG Jenča traveled to Astana, Kazakhstan, on 22 July, for meetings with Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov and other senior Kazakhs officials. Discussions touched upon the current political and…

Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, 03 December 2008 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams welcomed Lebanon’s signing today of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo. The Convention, agreed at a…

Nairobi, 20 July 2011 - The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somalipopulation – 3.7 million people…

New York, le 19 juillet 2011 - The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack today on the residence in Conakry of President Alpha Condé of Guinea. He stresses that no disagreements or differences justify recourse to…

Nairobi, 15 July 2011 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has congratulated Somalia's political leadership, in particular, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the…

Nairobi, 15 July 2011 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has congratulated Somalia's political leadership, in particular, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the…

SRSG's visit in Kanyosha

8 July 2011 - The Security Council today voiced satisfaction with the progress countries in West Africa are making towards greater peace and stability, welcoming the positive developments in post-conflict recovery and…

Hosting Mr. Haile Menkerios, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Sudan.