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Beirut, Lebanon Thursday, 07 November 2013 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly today met a delegation from the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform (CCER) at the UN House in Beirut. Mr Plumbly welcomed…

New York - The Security Council today extended the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to 31 October 2014, requesting the African Union to increase the troop strength of that regional peacekeeping body…

How best to support women candidates is a question a group of women and men sought to look for answers to at a workshop in Tripoli organized by the UN Support Mission in Libya. How best to support women candidates in the…

11 November 2013 – Former President Kumba Ialá, received by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) of the United Nations (UN), José Ramos-Horta, in the official residence, ensured that his sole intention…

The United Nations and the Libyan Ministry of Defence are pleased to invite you to attend a roundtable discussion they are jointly organizing on the theme: “The Role of Women in Dialogue and Peace-Building in Libya". The…

New York - The members of the Security Council are outraged by yesterday's bomb attack in Mogadishu, for which Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility, and which has caused numerous deaths and injuries. The members of the…

07 November 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Guinea-Bissau condemns the attack on Minister of Transport , Orlando Viegas Mendes, perpetrated Tuesday night outside his residence by…

Beletweyne, 5 November 2013 – The Director General of the Ministry of Interior and National Security, Mr. Ali Abtidon Halane, today opened the Hiil Walaal Rehabilitation Centre for disengaged combatants in Beletweyne, in the…

JSRS: Thank you very much. Sincere apologies for coming this late to you, but we have just finished a series of meeting that we have had today. We first had a trilateral meeting, that is, the United Nations, the Russian…

Tripoli, 04 November 2013 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya strongly condemns the series of assassinations in Benghazi that have targeted security and military officials as well as political activists and other…

On 2 November, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Libya has inaugurated a photo and multimedia exhibition aimed at raising awareness about the plight of persons from Syria while they…

The UN and the African Union reassure the armed group fighters At the end of their joint mission to Bangui (Central African Republic) and Juba (South Sudan) from 31 October to 1st November, Messrs. Francisco Madeira, theAU…