News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

1 April 2011 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, this week travelled to Brasilia and Lisbon as part of the organization efforts to mobilize international community for Guinea-Bissau. In Brasilia, Joseph Mutaboba held a meeting with the Brazilian…

22 March 2011 - The Special-Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNIOGBIS, Joseph Mutaboba, today met with the Angolan Secretary of State for External Relations, Manuel Augusto. The discussions focused the situation in Guinea-Bissau including key challenges such as the Security Sector…

15 March 2011 - The United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) will host the sixth meeting of heads of United Nations Human Rights Offices in West Africa in Dakar, Senegal, from 16 to 17 March 2011. The meeting will review the human rights situation in West Africa. It will also formulate…

4 March 2011 - The Special-Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNIOGBIS, Joseph Mutaboba, today called upon Guinea-Bissau authorities as well as their sub-regional partners to endorse the ECOWAS-CPLP road map. "It is crucial that the highest political authorities of Guinea-Bissau…

28 February 2011 - Representatives of the United Nations peace missions in West Africa held their twentieth high-level consultation in Dakar in order to coordinate the action of the UN promote peace and stability in the sub-region. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Representative…

25 February 2011 - Guinea-Bissau still has a long way to go in fighting impunity, drug trafficking, organized crime, and other "remaining triggers of instability" in a country that has for years been dogged by war, coups, coup attempts and assassinations, a senior United Nations official warned…

23 February 2011 - The UN Secretary-General's latest report on Guinea-Bissau is Friday analyzed by the Security Council in a session also marked by the briefing of his Special Representative, Joseph Mutaboba, on the latest developments in the West African country. In his report, Ban Ki-moon states…

3 February 2011 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Guinea-Bissau today highlighted the United Nations commitment to reinforce Bissau-Guinean institutional capacities as part of its support to the Security Sector Reform process. "Within the renewed mandate of UNIOGBIS, provided…

27 January 2011 - The United Nations Development Program office (UNDP) in Guinea-Bissau today signed a $30,000 grant agreement with Bissau-Guinean Civil Society National Movement to assist the organization in implementing a Security Sector Reform (SSR) awareness campaign program. According to the…

20 January 2011 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Gana Fofang of Cameroon as the new deputy United Nations envoy for Guinea-Bissau. Mr. Fofang will also serve as the UN Resident Coordinator and the Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in the West African country. He…

12 January 2011 - The United Nations in Guinea-Bissau today held a wreath-laying ceremony in tribute to the thousands of victims of Haiti earthquake occurred one year ago. In a statement SRSG Joseph Mutaboba (right in the picture), remembered the approximately 220,000 victims who died in the…

14 December 2010 - The United Nations in Guinea-Bissau is ready to continue providing support to the country's National Conference process, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General today said as he linked the initiative to the UN Office (UNIOGBIS) mandate. Joseph Mutaboba was speaking in…