12 February 2014 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began to airlift food into the Central African Republic where 1.25 million people are affected by violence that the top UN refugee official now fears is…
Bangui, 12 February 2014 – I have witnessed in the Central African Republic a humanitarian catastrophe of unspeakable proportions. Massive ethno-religious cleansing is continuing. There have been indiscriminate killings and…
BISHKEK, Kyrgyz republic – Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, visited Bishkek on 12-13 February. He met with Toraga…
Near verbatim transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi Geneva, 13 February 2014 JSRS : Good evening everyone. We just had a two hours meeting with Wendy Sherman, Under…
Mogadishu – At the Jazeera camp, the biggest military training facility in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, things get started very early in the morning. The new recruits of the Somali National Army (SNA) start their hard…
KABUL - The humanitarian community in Afghanistan launched an appeal to donors today for $406 million required to meet “the most acute” humanitarian needs in 2014.“In 2014, I appeal to donors to maintain a similar level of…
KABUL - The Government of Afghanistan launched today its National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons with the aim to set out a “comprehensive, effective and realistic” framework to address the issue of displacement in…
Over the past months, I have issued a number of public statements urging all groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) engaged in the on-going conflict to immediately cease the violence, and warning them that those alleged…
The two leaders had their first meeting today under the auspices of the UN Secretary General’s Good Offices mission. The meeting was held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere and the two leaders have agreed to the following…
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - On 10-11 February 2014, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNRCCA, Miroslav Jenča, visited Astana to meet with the Speaker of the Senate Kassym-Jomart Tokaev, Minister of…
(Near verbatim transcript) JSRS : Good afternoon everyone. I’m not sure that we’re going to meet everyday as we did the previous time, but I will certainly come every time I have something to tell you. Today I don’t have much…