Delegation from the Office of the Special Envoy and the ICGLR with Sudanese authorities during a working session to prepare the workshop on natural resources in Sudan.
Joint delegations from the UN Office for the Great Lakes and ICGLR undertake a joint mission to Sudan to lay the groundwork for a workshop on natural resources
Khartoum (Sudan), 3 July 2021 - A joint team of made of representatives from the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)…
High-level participants at the workshop on natural resources, Khartoum, The Sudan, 31 August 2021. Photo: Mahmoud Shamrouk/UNITAMS
Africa’s Great Lakes countries meet to identify concrete actions to curb the illegal exploitation and trade of natural resources in the region
Khartoum (The Sudan), 2 September 2021 - The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), in partnership with the German…
Joint Press Release - Great Lakes countries agree on collective actions to curb the financing of negative forces linked to the illicit exploitation and trade of natural resources
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region and the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) co…
Africa’s Great Lakes women reinforce their mediation and negotiation skills to better contribute to preventative diplomacy and mediation efforts in the region
Kigali (Rwanda), 10 September 2021 - The Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation, better known as ‘FemWise-Africa’, has concluded a week-long training in Kigali, Rwanda, to enhance the mediation and…
Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region. New York, 20 October 2021. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
UN’s top envoy warns Great Lakes Region is ‘at a crossroads’
Source: UN News 20 October 2021 - Speaking at a Security Council meeting on the situation in Africa’s Great Lakes region on Wednesday [20 October], the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy, Huang Xia, told ambassadors that the…
Right of reply from the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region
The Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region would like to refer to the article published by Jeune Afrique on 18 October 2021 and titled “Great Lakes: Felix Tshisekedi…
Participants at the launch of the Great Lakes Women Entrepreneurs’ Network. Seated in the front row, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and Richard Ngatia, President of the ICGLR Private Sector Forum. UN Photo/Penangnini Toure
Launch of the Great Lakes Women Entrepreneurs’ Network
Nairobi, 2 December 2021 - On 2 December 2021, the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, and the Private Sector Forum of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR…
Participants at the security experts’ meeting on the implementation of the Action Plan of the Contact and Coordination Group. Goma, eastern DRC, 13 December 2021. UN Photo/Elisa Lux
Security experts from the Great Lakes discuss innovative ways to tackle insecurity in the region
Goma (eastern DRC), 17 December 2021 - Security experts from the Great Lakes region, namely from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda met this week in Goma, eastern DRC, to agree…
President Felix Tshisekedi of the DR Congo (at podium) addressing the assembly during the 10th meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework. Kinshasa, DRC, 24 February 2022 (UN Photo/Penangnini Toure).
Leaders of the Great Lakes meet in Kinshasa to assess progress in the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region
Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 24 February 2022 - The Heads of State and Government of the signatory countries of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and…
Front: Richard Ngatia, President of the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) and Wavinya Ndeti, Governor of Machakos County (Kenya), participate in the Regional Trade Conference in Kishasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo: Liz Guantai, UN)
East African countries strive for greater partnership in trade and investment
Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), 25 January 2023 - The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) in collaboration with the East African Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (EACCIA) and the…
9th Meeting of the Guarantors of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region
On 6 July 2022, the representatives of the Guarantor institutions of the Peace, Security and Cooperation (PSC) Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region met in Nairobi, Kenya, to: (i) assess the…
The PSC-F Guarantors strongly condemn the recent attacks by the ex-M23 rebels in eastern DRC
5 April 2022 - The Guarantor Institutions of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework (PSCF) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region, signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 24 February 2013, namely the…