KABUL - Latest figures from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) show a continuing trend of record high civilian casualties, with deaths and injuries from ground engagements in Afghanistan remaining…
NANGARHAR - At a United Nations-backed seminar, women journalists in the eastern region of Afghanistan voiced concern over security issues and other challenges confronting members of the media, especially women journalists…
11 April 2015 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) condemns the grave escalation in hostilities in western Libya in recent days, particularly in the Aziziya area in Warshafana, a region whose towns have…
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the killing of at least 18 civilians over the last 24 hours in three separate incidents, including Thursday’s armed attack on the Prosecutor’s…
04 April 2015 - Libyan women have a crucial role to play in resolving the crisis in Libya, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Bernardino Leon, said in an address to about 250 Libyan women who…
KABUL - Following the release of a new UNAMA report on land use, officials from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, in collaboration with national and international partners, hosted a workshop to discuss land…
Tunis, 07 April 2015 – Mr. Ali Zarzour, Mayor of Al Baydaa and Dr. Ghassan Khalil, UNICEF Special Representative for Libya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support children of Internally Displaced Persons and…
KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan today welcomed the Afghan Government’s initiative in developing and implementing a national action programme for the elimination of torture, saying that it is the time…
ASTANA, Kazakhstan – On 7-8 April, Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), visited Astana to meet with the Speaker…
7 April 2015 - Prime Minister Domingos Simões Pereira and UNIOGBIS leadership have been multiplying efforts to clarify the outcome of the Brussels donor roundtable to the Bissau-Guinean people. Prime Minister Pereira…