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The Secretary-General condemns the terrorist attacks carried out today in three hotels in the town of Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire. The attacks resulted to at least 14 civilians killed and numerous injured. He expresses his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims as well as to the people…

Female UN police officers and their Ivorian counterparts donated food items to the Anges des Soeurs Pauvres children’s home in Adiaké (March 2016)

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire, on 13 March 2016, during which at least 16 people were killed and many more injured, and for which Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility. They expressed…

The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme regrets to announce the death of a United Nations Volunteer who was serving as civilian personnel in the Engineering Section of UNOCI. Mrs. Anita Andreevska Mitrovska was killed during the attack…

Incident in Grand-Bassam : Security briefing at the airport lounge soon after the Special Representative’s (SRSG) return to the Mission area. SRSG, UNOCI’s FC, Security adviser and Spokesperson (Abidjan, 13 March 2016, 19:43)

Abidjan, 16 March 2016… The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire, (UNOCI), Mrs Aïchatou Mindaoudou, condemns the terrorist attacks which were carried out on 13 March 2016 in Grand-Bassam, and in…

Incident in Grand Bassam: The Special Representative signing the book of condolences at the Ivorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Abidjan, March 2016)

Security forces and community leaders in Zouan-Hounien, situated at some 680 km west of Abidjan, have made a commitment to improve mutual collaboration at the end of a workshop of reflection organised by the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) on Wednesday, 16 March 2016. Focusing on…

Some 100 women from an agricultural cooperative in Sekonkaha village, in the sous-préfecture of Napié, situated at 560 km north of Abidjan, were sensitised on the values of the culture of peace, social cohesion, gender-based violence, as well as community development, on 17 March 2016. The…

The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI), on Thursday, 17 March 2016, paid a final tribute to Corporal Baye Saliou Faye of the 15th Senegalese Contingent (SENBATT), who died in hospital in Yamoussoukro after a short illness, at its headquarters in Abidjan. The laying-out ceremony was…

UNOCI pays a final tribute to Anita Andreevska Mitrovska, a United Nations Volunteer who died in the attack in Grand Bassam on Sunday, 13 March (Abidjan, March 2016)

The third quadripartite meeting between the Governments of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire, and the forces of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) and the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), started on Thursday, 17 March 2016 in Grand-Bassam, situated at some 40 km from Abidjan…