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Abuja, 8 December, 2021 - The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), and with the support of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is organizing the Annual West Africa and Sahel Youth…

Abuja, 10 December, 2021 - The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), in collaboration with the Center for the Development of Youth and Sports (CDJS) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), organized from 9 to 10 December 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria, the second…

The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) is organizing on 16 and 17 December 2021 a regional seminar on the "Contribution of religious and traditional actors to peacebuilding, conflict prevention and resolution in West Africa and the Sahel". In West Africa and Sahel countries…

Dakar, 17 December 2021 - The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), organized on 16 and 17 December 2021, a regional seminar on the "Contribution of religious and traditional leaders to peacebuilding, conflict prevention and resolution in West Africa and the Sahel". The…

West Africa is struggling with insecurity, which risks reversing hard-won advances Dakar, 10 January 2022 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, briefed today by videoconference the United…

INFORMATION NOTE Joint UNOWAS-ECOWAS Mission To Burkina Faso Dakar, 29 January 2022 -The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, will carry out this Monday, January 31 a joint assessment…

The United Nations and its partners are concerned about the resurgence of coups in the sub-region, the latest of which occurred in Burkina Faso on 23 January 2022, following two others in Mali and Guinea. It is in this context that the Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United…

INFORMATION NOTE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ANNADIF TO PARTICIPATE IN ECOWAS EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT ON BURKINA FASO Dakar, 02 February 2022 - After carrying out, on 31 January 2022, a joint mission in Ouagadougou with a ministerial delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…

Dakar, 03 February 2022 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, participated today in the Extraordinary of the authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government on the political…

Dakar, 09 February 2022 - After having carried out a joint mission with ECOWAS to Burkina Faso on 31 January, and participated in the Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government on the political situation in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, held in Accra, Ghana, on 3 February…

Dakar, 10 February 2022 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, today paid a one-day visit to Guinea-Bissau. During his visit, Mr. ANNADIF was received in audience by His Excellency…

Dakar, 28 February 2022 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, Mr. Jean Claude Kassi Brou, President of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), and Mrs. Shirley…