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Ibn Chambas encourages Guinean actors to preserve gains of the political dialogue(French Version)
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Ghana: Candidates Agreement on Peaceful Elections
Joint Statement ECOWAS- COMMONWEALTH- UNITED NATIONS The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Marcel Alain de Souza, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Mohamed Ibn…
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« Crosscutting issues in peace operations » at the heart of a training in Dakar
A training on "Crosscutting issues in peace operations" opened on Monday 28 November 2016 in Dakar, Senegal. The workshop is co-organized by the Ministry of Defense of Senegal and the Ministry of Defense and Sports of Austria and supported by the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel…
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UNOWAS supports a training on peace operations co-organized by the Senegalese Ministry of Armed Forces and the Austrian Ministry of Defense
The Ministry of the Armed Forces of Senegal and the Ministry of Defense and Sports of Austria, with the support of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), organized, from 28 November to 02 December 2016, a training on "Cross-cutting issues in peace operations". The…
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SRSG Mohamed Ibn Chambas congratulates the government and the people of The Gambia for organizing a peaceful and credible election
- Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for your presence, This is my third visit to The Gambia this year. In May, I came here as a member of the ECOWAS-AU-UN Joint High Level Mission. I was also here on 10 November. The main objective for those missions was to reiterate the support of the United Nations…
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Statement by SRSG Mohamed Ibn Chambas, on the Presidential and Parliamentary elections In Ghana
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, congratulates the people of Ghana for the peaceful, orderly and successful Presidential and Parliamentary elections of Wednesday 7 December 2016. The…
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ECOWAS, African Union and UN statement on the political developments in the Gambia
The ECOWAS Commission, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) have received information that the Gambian incumbent President Yahya Jammeh has rejected the results of the Gambian presidential election of 1 December 2016 that have been…
The UN supports a peaceful, timely and orderly transfert of power in the Gambia
THE 50th ORDINARY SUMMIT OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) Abuja, 17 December 2016 Speech by Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Your Excellency Madam Ellen…
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30th High-level Meeting of Heads of UN Missions in West Africa
30 th High-level Meeting of Heads of UN Missions in West Africa Monrovia, 21 December 2016 At the invitation of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the…
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Youth and women in the rural world, major actors of peace in West Africa and the Sahel
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Briefing to the Security Council on the Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)
1 July – 31 December 2016 By Mohamed Ibn Chambas Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOWAS New York, 13 January 2017 Monsieur le Président, Distingués membres du Conseil, 1. C’est un honneur pour moi de me retrouver devant cette auguste assemblée, pour une mise à jour de la…