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Goma, July 3rd, 2017 - The North Kivu Civil Protection Service has organized a simulation exercise involving about 2, 000 families and constituting over 11, 000 persons on Monday 03 of July in Goma to evacuate the population…
Nairobi (Kenya), 6 July 2017 - The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes (O/SESG-GL) convened on 5 and 6…
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali today condemned continuing ceasefire violations by two signatories of the 2015 Peace and Reconciliation Agreement. The accord was signed in June 2015 by the Coordination des…
Izumi Nakamitsu has taken the helm of United Nations disarmament affairs at a time when needs are greatest for the world to invest in conflict prevention. Some argue that disarmament is not the right issue to negotiate when…
Monrovia - On July 5, UNMIL Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Peace Consolidation, Yacoub El Hillo challenged countries in the West African region to put in place systems that can help avert…
Opening of new Level II hospital gives confidence to UNMISS staff It has the sterile smell of an ordinary hospital as well as the same neatly packed surgical masks and gloves, medicines, needles and other supplies needed in a…
UNMISS Indian peacekeepers provide lifesaving care to seriously ill civilian Indian peacekeepers have today provided lifesaving medical assistance to a woman who collapsed near a UN base at Melut in the Upper Nile region of…
Working in close coordination with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion (INDBATT) conducted a weeklong vaccination drive against “goat plague” in Halta, south-eastern Lebanon, last week. Mayor of…
While a number of steps have been taken to address the scourge of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), the former deputy head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has urged…
Monrovia - On 29 June 2017, UNMIL DSRSG, Waldemar Vrey commended the revised the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Liberia (NSSRL) for advancing the issue of human security. Speaking at a one-day forum on NSSRL…
UNMISS hands over the newly renovated police and court facilities in the Upper Nile region to local authorities. Three UN-funded projects to renovate new police and court facilities in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan…
A UNIFIL Spanish Peacekeeper reviews the installation of solar street lighting in Ibl al-Saqi. The electricity supply in South Lebanon is intermittent, with daily power outages that last a few hours at a time. The time and…