12 April 2011 – Attacks against humanitarian personnel have tripled over the past decade, rising to more than 100 deaths each year, with the most of the fatalities occurring in areas where violence has increased significantly…
KABUL - Today the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura at his request, met separately with the Chairman of the Ulema Council of Afghanistan, Maulavi Qiyamuddin Kashaaf and…
We have just concluded a very successful consultative meeting. Several of the most important stakeholders from Somalia attended the meeting. The Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament and some of his colleagues were…
12 April 2011 - Today the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura at his request, met separately with the Chairman of the Ulema Council of Afghanistan, Maulavi Qiyamuddin…
Nairobi, 11 April 2011 – Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General Augustine P. Mahiga today said that he is confident that the High Level Consultative meeting scheduled to take place 12 and 13 April in…
KABUL - Actor Jeremy Renner, who shot to fame playing a bomb disposal expert in the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker, took a five-day visit to Afghanistan in late 2010 to highlight the efforts of the United Nations…
10 April 2011 - I am deeply concerned about recent developments in Côte d'Ivoire. On 5 April, while Mr. Gbagbo's camp claimed that they had initiated negotiations to end the crisis peacefully and ordered their forces to lay…