Mogadishu – Last night I was informed that a commercial plane carrying humanitarian cargo for an international nongovernmental organisation crashed killing six persons on board on approach to Bardale, approximately 55 km…
UNIOGBIS’s gender unit engaged the Women's Network for Peace and Security in the ECOWAS Space (REMPSECAO) to assist municipal authorities in the relocation of part of the old downtown women’s market to the less central…
KABUL - Last week H.E. First Vice-President Amrullah Saleh and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Deborah Lyons held their first meeting since assuming their respective offices. Together they discussed the Covid…
UN Special Coordinator Jan Kubis and Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix briefed the Security Council on the situation in Lebanon during its regular meeting on the implementation of United Nations Security Council…
Mogadishu – Last night I was informed that a commercial plane carrying humanitarian cargo for an international nongovernmental organisation crashed killing six persons on board on approach to Bardale, approximately 55 km…
COVID-19 RESPONSE | IOM donates life-saving supplies IOM is working in close coordination with the Ministry of Health, WHO, the Immigration and Naturalization Directorate and other relevant stakeholders to support COVID-19…
Tripoli, 3 May 2020 - An independent media, free from intimidation and threats, is crucial to laying the foundations of democracy. On this day, I want to pay tribute to the brave journalists and media workers in Libya who…
TRIPOLI, 3 May 2020 - UNHCR has begun a series of extra emergency distributions in Tripoli, to assist some of the most vulnerable people during Ramadan, and as war and COVID-19 present new threats. The first distribution got…
Mogadishu – PRESS STATEMENT 08/2020 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations envoy to Somalia today called for Somali journalists to be able to perform their work freely. “The media have a vital role to…
Mogadishu – On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations envoy to Somalia today called for Somali journalists to be able to perform their work freely. “The media have a vital role to play in Somali society…
Nairobi – Looking back at her career so far, Farhia Mohamed Kheyre sees an inevitability to its direction. “I was born into war and brought up in war. I know how it is to be vulnerable and to yearn for a better life. The…