News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

10 December 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General today exhorted Bissau-Guinean authorities to endorse the road map of priorities for effective implementation of the reform of the Defence and Security sector (SSR). The roadmap was jointly prepared by ECOWAS (Economic Community…

3 December 2010 - Guinea-Bissau Government will set up a Transnational Crime Unit in the country, according to a memorandum today signed in Bissau with the United Nations. The document was signed by the Guinean Minister of Justice and the Public Security Secretary of State and a representative of…

24 November 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today attends in Abuja an ECOWAS ministerial meeting focused on the Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Guinea-Bissau. The 28th Meeting of Mediation and Security Council at Ministerial Level will…

23 November 2010 - The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations office in Guinea-Bissau until 31 December 2011, while voicing deep concern at the continuing instability in the country. The UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS), established by the…

5 November 2010 - Plans to reform Guinea-Bissau's security sector, reintegrate former combatants and end impunity in the country, if properly pursued, would create the conditions for wider international cooperation with the West African country, Joseph Mutaboba, Special Representative of the…

5 November 2010 - The latest United Nations Secretary-General's report on Guinea-Bissau is analyzed Friday by the Security Council while the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, will brief the Members on the latest developments in the West African…

25 October 2010 - UNIOGBIS, in partnership with Guinea-Bissau institutions, on Monday started two workshops on gender responsive budgeting and on Human Rights directed to Guinea-Bissau Members of Parliament (MPs) and for Armed Forces members, respectively, as part of its state institutions…

5 October 2010 - Guinea-Bissau political and military situation was at the center of a meeting on Tuesday in Bissau, between the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General and his African Union counterpart. SRSG Joseph Mutaboba and the AU top official Sebastião Isata also analyzed the…

29 September 2010 - The heads of United Nations peace missions across West Africa on Wednesday held their 19th high-level meeting in Dakar in order to coordinate the UN actions for peace and stability in the region. The meeting was chaired by the UN Secretary-General Special Representative for West…

14 September 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Joseph Mutaboba, on Monday resumed a 10 day trip to four European countries focused on the situation in Guinea-Bissau. Mutaboba is travelling to Paris, Lisbon, London and Brussels to hold consultations with the European…

11 August 2010 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, on Wednesday briefed ECOWAS Chiefs of General Staff on the activities carried out by UNIOGBIS to support Guinea-Bissau Security Sector Reform (SSR). The briefing occurred during the…

4 August 2010 - Guinea-Bissau authorities intention to consider a stabilization mission to the country is in line the last Security Council presidential statement that invited the Bissau-Guinean Government and the international community "to cooperate with ECOWAS with a view to establishing a…