News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

The Human Rights division of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has made an assessment of the UN Mission's support for the transitional justice process through its assistance to the national Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CDVR). The process was put in place in Cote d'Ivoire to…

Strengthen social cohesion and maintain peace: these were the two issues at the heart of a discussion and information session between personnel of the Human Rights Division, Rule of Law and Civil Affairs sections and the Public Information Office of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire…

24 October 2014 The United Nations is needed more than ever at this time of multiple crises. Poverty, disease, terrorism, discrimination and climate change are exacting a heavy toll. Millions of people continue to suffer deplorable exploitation through bonded labour, human trafficking, sexual…

Bouaké, the capital of Gbéké region , on Friday 24 October 2014, played host to the activities commemorating the 69th anniversary of the United Nations Charter. The delegation of the United Nations family, led by the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire…

United Nations Day on 24 October 2014 was commemorated in several towns by the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and the UN Country Team. While the town of Bouake hosted the official ceremony to mark the Day (see separate story), various activities were organized in the towns of Bakoubly…

A detachment of the Niger Battalion of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) based in Gagnoa on 27 October 2014 came to the rescue of 13 victims of a serious road accident along the Gagnoa-Daloa highway. As soon as the Chief of contingent, Lt. Harou Garba and the head of UN Police in the area…

PRESS RELEASE Press release - UNOCI 1318...The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) regrets to announce the death of a Senegalese soldier serving with the Mission's Force, on 28 October 2014, in a road accident near Vavoua, in the Haut Sassandra region. Corporal Omar Diedhou, who…

2 November 2014 A free and open press is part of the bedrock of democracy and development. Yet in the last ten years, more than 700 journalists have been killed for simply doing their job. Some cases have received international attention – others less so. In the last year alone, for example, at…

The Deputy Special Representative of UN Secretary-General in Cote d'Ivoire, Mr. Mbaye Babacar Cisse who is also the UN Resident Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme took part in the opening ceremony of a 2-day seminar on the techniques of…

Some 80 prison wardens and superintendents from the northern towns of Korhogo and Boundiali took part in a 2-day workshop organized by the Human Rights division of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on the respect of the rights of women and privacy of detainees in the prison environment…

The UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and the Ivorian Authority for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (ADDR) on 30 October 2014 launched a project for the benefit of ex-combatants and the village communities in Beoue, near Bangolo, 532 km north-west of Abidjan. Some 25 ex-combatants…

The Civil Affairs Office of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on October 27 2014 embarked on a 3-day confidence- building mission in Grabo and Fetai a locality which came under attack from unidentified assailants in which 4 civilians and 3 soldiers of the Ivorian armed forces were killed on…