Special Envoy Huang Xia (L) meets Guillaume Manjolo (C), DRC Minister of International Cooperation, Regional Integration and the Francophony.
The UN undertakes a strategic review of the Great Lakes region in Africa for peace consolidation, conflict prevention and conflict resolution
Nairobi, 18 September 2020 – The Great Lakes region has made great strides towards achieving peace, security and stability in the past two years. Examples of such progress include the smooth transition of power following the…
Special Envoy Huang Xia (L) with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo.
Special Envoy Huang Xia of the Great Lakes region visits several countries to discuss matters of peace, security and development
8 October 2020 - The UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, undertook from 28 September to 8 October a series of missions in the region and met with several officials, including Presidents João Lourenço of…
UN Special Envoy Huang Xia (screen photo) briefing the Security Council on 13 October 2020.
Special Envoy Huang Xia briefs UN Security Council, seeks Council members continued support for the Great Lakes region
Nairobi, 13 October 2020 – The United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, today briefed the Security Council on recent developments in the region. The Special Envoy emphasized the region's leaders…
Huang Xia: I will spare no effort to ensure the future of a peaceful, inclusive, prosperous, and resilient region for all the people and communities in the Great Lakes
Nairobi, 24 October 2020 – I join my voice to the global campaign celebrating the 75 th Anniversary of the United Nations (#UN75). Since the signing of the groundbreaking and visionary United Nations Charter in 1945, the…
A new Strategy for Peace Consolidation, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution to guide UN engagement in the Great Lakes region
Nairobi, 14 January 2021 – As the United Nations marked its 75th anniversary last year (2020), a new United Nations Strategy for Peace Consolidation, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution in the Great Lakes region was…
The Guarantors of the Framework agreement meeting virtually from Nairobi (Kenya), Bujumbura (Burundi) and Gaborone (Botswana)
Eight years on, the Framework agreement for the DRC and the region still a crucial instrument in achieving lasting peace and stability in the Great Lakes
Nairobi (Kenya), 3 March 2021 – The Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marked its eighth anniversary on 24…
Great Lakes Region ‘on the right track’ to tackling political and other challenges
Source: UN News Governments and people across the 13 nations continue to show resilience and determination in the face of the global crisis, Special Envoy Huang Xia said, while congratulating those who have begun vaccinations…
UN Special Envoy Huang Xia (2nd from left) meets with President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania (right).
UN Special Envoy Huang Xia and President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania meet to discuss regional security and development issues
Nairobi, 5 May 2021 - Huang Xia, United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, met with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Nairobi, Kenya, on her first official visit to the country. During the meeting…
Press Release, OSESG-B Closure, 31 May 2021
Bujumbura, 31 May 2021 – Today, the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi (OSESG-B) officially closed, after more than four years of operations in the country. The official ceremony was presided…
A new chapter for Burundi as the UN Office for the country closes
Bujumbura, 31 May 2021 – The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, presided over the ceremony that saw the official closing of the Office of the Special Envoy for Burundi…
Great Lakes Special Envoy Huang Xia (2nd from R) and Special Representative and Head of MONUSCO Bintou Keita (2nd from L) at the workshop on the UN Strategy for the Great Lakes region. (Photo: Ascain Zigbia Tayoro/MONUSCO)
Participative deliberations at workshop on the implementation of the UN Strategy for the Great Lakes region offer insights on the way forward
Kinshasa, 10 June 2021 – On 9-10 June, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region organized a workshop in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to draw an action plan for the…
Amb. Basile Ikouebe, AU Special representative for the Great Lakes region (left) and Amb. Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, at the 4th meeting of the Contact and Coordination Group, Bujumbura, Burundi, 6 July 2021
Countries of the Great Lakes region organize to better neutralize negative forces in eastern DRC
Bujumbura (Burundi), 6 July 2021 – Heads of intelligence and security services of the Great Lakes countries, including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania, met on 5-6 July in the…