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“Women have real leadership, but our societies are often conservative”
Former Minister of Culture (2001) of Senegal, Professor of Muslim and Western Middle Ages History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Mrs. Penda Mbow has been engaged for more than twenty years as a civil society activist for the promotion of the political and intellectual leadership of…
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UNOCA – UNOWAS – EU concluded a four-day joint visit to Nigeria
Abuja, 22 November 2019- As part of the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2349 (2017), the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, and the system-wide UN strategy on the Lake Chad Basin crisis, the Special Representatives of the Secretary General for Central Africa (UNOCA)…
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Meeting on Peace and Security within the Mano River Union
The Mano River Union Secretariat (MRU) and the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) organized a high-level sub-regional meeting from 25 to 26 November 2019, in Freetown, Republic of Sierra Leone. The purpose of the meeting was to review the role of the Joint Border Security…
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The UN special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, expresses solidarity with the Government and the people of The Gambia, calls on regional and international leaders to uphold their engagement to stop death and despair along migration trails
Dakar, 09 December- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, is deeply saddened by the news that some 62 migrants, mostly Gambians, lost their lives on Wednesday 4 December when their…