Peacekeeping news

Béni – 7 July 2017: After Erengeti, Mavivi and Mayangose districts in the city of Béni, two more districts in Béni are now lit with solar energy as part of the MONUSCO-funded project for the reduction of community violence…

Photo by Salah Mohammed, UNAMID. EL FASHER - Enhancing the work of the National Human Rights Commission in North Darfur was the aim of a UNAMID-supported workshop on 09 July 2017, in El Fasher. The day-long meeting reviewed…

UNIFIL’s Sector West Headquarters and the Mission’s Italian Contingent organized a mine awareness campaign at As Samaiyah Intermediate Public School in Tyre district, in collaboration with various UNIFIL units, UN Mine Action…

UNIFIL’s Sector West Headquarters and the Italian Contingent organized an “entertainment day” for about 100 Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) martyrs’ children on 8 July. UNIFIL Sector West Commander Brigadier General Francesco…

NICOSIA, 10 July 2017 – This Monday, under the setting Cyprus sun, 248 military personnel trooped across the UN flight hangar to receive awards in the service of peace. Officiating at the event were Head of Mission and…

Strategy and problem-solving skills were on full display when the second annual Bi-communal Chess Tournament took place at Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN buffer zone. Held during the months of May and June, the tournament…

In the ongoing effort to improve the overall performance of United Nations peacekeeping missions, the heads of the armed forces of around 100 countries met at UN Headquarters in New York today to discuss issues such as rapid…

Monrovia - UNMIL Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Political and Rule of Law, Waldemar Vrey today joined with Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, senior government officials…

Monrovia - UNMIL Police Commissioner Simon Blatchly today said that although countries in West Africa, including Liberia, are transit points, the trafficking of illicit drugs in the region is becoming a more complex issue. He…

Goma, July 3rd, 2017 - The North Kivu Civil Protection Service has organized a simulation exercise involving about 2, 000 families and constituting over 11, 000 persons on Monday 03 of July in Goma to evacuate the population…

Nairobi (Kenya), 6 July 2017 - The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes (O/SESG-GL) convened on 5 and 6…

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali today condemned continuing ceasefire violations by two signatories of the 2015 Peace and Reconciliation Agreement. The accord was signed in June 2015 by the Coordination des…