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Yusef Marda wasn’t naïve about the risks awaiting him when he set out on the long journey from his hometown of Kufra, deep in the Sahara Desert, to the nearest functioning civilian airport more than a thousand kilometres away…

GARDEZ - The advocacy role of young Afghans in working with government to fight corruption, promote women’s equality and bring about sustainable peace was the focus of an open debate in the south-eastern province of Paktika…

UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag attended the launch of the EU-funded “Sustainable Energy Strategy of the Lebanese Armed Forces” organized by the Ministry of Defense and the Lebanese Army. Ms. Kaag praised the…

Mr. President [Amb. Elio Rosselli of Uruguay], Dear colleagues, 1. When I briefed you in April, we together saw two paths ahead: either international escalation and internal escalation and deeper intra-Syrian conflict; or…

The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the military escalation at the Brak al-Shati air base in southern Libya and calls on all parties to exercise restraint and restore calm. He is particularly disturbed by the high…

Tunis, 17th May 2017 - UNFPA, United Nation Fund for Population, IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and IFRC, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, have jointly organized a training on “Gender Based…

SdM: Let me read to you some comments and then of course I will take some questions, so don’t be intimidated by the formality of my comments. Today we concluded a sixth round of the intra-Syrian talks. You must have seen and…

KUNDUZ - Addressing residents of Baghlan and Takhar in televised roundtable debates, religious scholars emphasized the critical importance of institutionalizing the principles of peace at all levels of society, from the…

“I am following with great concern the ongoing hunger strike by Palestinian detainees protesting against their conditions in Israeli jails. The strike is now entering its second month and it is imperative that a resolution be…

A joint high-level mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union and the United Nations visited Côte d'Ivoire on 17 May 2017, in the context of mutinies. (Press release available in…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, strongly condemns the unprovoked attack on the Brak al-Shati airbase in southern Libya…

Mr. President, When SRSG Keating addressed this Council two months ago, Somalia’s new cabinet had just been announced and the Secretary-General had just visited the country at a time he aptly described as a moment of both…