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Kinshasa, 5 April 2011 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr. Roger Meece, accompanied by his two Deputies, Ms. Leila Zerrougui and Mr. Fidèle Sarassoro this morning…
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KABUL - On 28 October 2009, attackers stormed the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul killing five United Nations staff as part of a plan to disrupt the presidential election runoff. We remember: Jossie Esto, UNDP electoral…
Mine Action in the true sense of the word came to being in 2008 when a Senior Technical Advisor (STA) was deployed to Western Sahara and a Mine Action Coordination Centre (MACC) was set up as part of the Office of the Special…
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Bujumbura, April 05, 2011_ Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message on the seventeenth Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda, observed 7 April: Today, we honour the memory of more than 800,000 people murdered…
Naqoura, Lebanon - The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) marked today the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. At a ceremony at UNIFIL Sector West headquarters in Shama, Force…
04 April 2011 - UNAMID is currently investigating a 2 April incident at the Khamsa Dagaig Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, in which seven unknown armed men reportedly entered the camp and began shooting sporadically…
04 April 2011 - A verification team has also been dispatched to Hashaba, located 43 km northeast of Kutum in North Darfur, after reports of air strikes on 2 April. The Mission has also been actively monitoring tribal tensions…
04 April 2011 - The outcome of a working-level meeting of the African Union, United Nations and Government of the Sudan Tripartite Mechanism has highlighted a higher level of continued cooperation between the three parties…
4 April marked an important moment in the life of MINURSO...there was ... farewell ceremony for the FC. Jingmin Zhao (China)...
3 April, Kabul - Afghanistan experienced its third day of protests in the wake of the burning of the Koran two weeks ago by a US pastor in Florida. Sunday’s protests occurred in many provinces and cities across the country…
"The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action is a timely reminder that clearing land of explosive remnants of war saves lives and protects livelihoods. Mine clearance prevents an indiscriminate…
Dili, 1 April 2011 - Timor-Leste has begun a new chapter in the country's history, as the national police force assumed primary responsibility for law and order at the end of March. This follows five years in which the United…