News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Abidjan, 18 March 2009... A group of Young Patriots on Wednesday organised a protest in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) to call for the lifting of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against their leader, Charles Blé Goudé, in 2006. The…

Abidjan, 30 March 2009... The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has learnt with deep regret of the accident that occurred on Sunday 29 March 2009 at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium, at the football match between the Elephants [the Ivorian national team] and Malawi, in which about…

Abidjan, 31 March 2009...The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, YJ Choi, on Tuesday received the Director of the Africa Department of the South African Foreign Ministry, Andrew Maswanganye. At the end of his discussions with the head of the UN Operation in Côte d…

The UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) noted with satisfaction on Thursday that the population identification and voter registration process, which is observing a two-week break, passed the six-million mark on 30 March 2009. Speaking at UNOCI's weekly press conference, the mission's spokesman…

Abidjan, le 15 avril 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, today met with the French Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, André Janier, at the headquarters of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI). Speaking after the meeting, Mr. Janier…

Abidjan, 16 April 2009...The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on Thursday invited Ivorian political actors to show restraint and focus on the peace process. In a statement read by its spokesman, Hamadoun Touré, during the Mission's weekly press conference, UNOCI encouraged them to…

Lakota, 18 April 2009...For the first time since it was deployed in April 2004, the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has organised its sensitization and discussion forum in Lakota, 244 km from Abidjan, in an attempt to put an end to years of mistrust and misunderstandings…

Abidjan 6 May 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi on Tuesday, 5 May 2009, presided over a short ceremony to pay tribute to a Bangladeshi peacekeeper who died on 24 April 2009 after suffering a heart attack. The ceremony was also attended by the…

Abidjan, 14 May 2009...... The United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) welcomes the announcement of the 29 November 2009 for the holding of presidential election. This is a positive development in the crisis-resolution process. Together with the remarkable progress achieved in the…

Abidjan, 28 May 2009 ........ The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, YJ Choi, received the Director of UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa, Dr. Gianfranco Rotigliano, in Abidjan on Thursday. After the meeting, Dr Rotigliano explained that his aim…

Abidjan, 29 May 2009... Many senior Ivorian officials, led by President Laurent Gbagbo, and members of the diplomatic corps participated in the celebration of the International Day of Peacekeepers at the headquarters of the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) in Abidjan on Friday 29 May. « Your…

Abidjan, 2 June 2009...The head of the UN police in Côte d'Ivoire, Pierre André Campiche, and Deputy Force Commander Benjamin Freeman Kuzi participated on Tuesday in the first weekly military meeting aimed at creating a discussion framework for monitoring the Fourth supplementary accord to the…