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SdeM: Good afternoon. Today we had a very short meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force. It lasted not more than 8 minutes. I decided to use my privilege as Chair to declare that there was no sense in have a humanitarian…
- UNOCI Photo of the Day
Adding the finishing touches to the signboard of the Koumassi Youth Center rehabilitated by UNOCI under its Quick Impact Projects Programme (Abidjan, June 2012)
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At the end of their six months mission, fifty-six Officers, including six women of the medical Battalion of Bangladesh (BANMED 12) deployed within the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) received the medal of…
Members of the State Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (SIEIT) at a briefing on the process for the forthcoming elections on 16 August 2016 in Mogadishu, Somalia. UN Photo
- Feature Stories
The bodies formed to implement Somalia’s 2016 electoral process at the state and regional levels received an in-depth briefing on the process from the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT) during three days…
A Fijian UN Police officer at work. She and her uniformed compatriots serving as peacekeepers at UNMISS were recently awarded medals for their efforts. Photo: UNMISS/Ilya Medvedev
From the white, alluringly sandy beaches of the Fiji Islands, 29 men and women have travelled over 39 hours and some 16,300 kilometers to South Sudan to serve UNMISS. These men and women are Police, Corrections and Military…
- UNOCI Photo of the Day
The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) regrets to announce the sudden death, on 11 August 2016, of Private Hassimi Amadou, a soldier of the Niger Battalion (NIGERBATT), in a medical institution in Abidjan…
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KANDAHAR - To help students know more about the work of the UN in Afghanistan, more than 100 students and their teachers participated in a UNAMA-backed event in the southern city Kandahar. “I learned a lot about the UN,” said…
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The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the killing of at least 50 civilians on 13 August in the area of Rwangoma village, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), by…
- Secretary-General
The Secretary-General notes that the parties to the conflict in Yemen have damaged or destroyed over 70 health centers, including three other MSF-supported facilities. He is deeply disturbed by the intensification of…
- UNOCI Photo of the Day
During the UNOCI Forum in Danane, an Ivorian participant, in a written message, calls on her compatriots to unite for peace (Danane, April 2006)
Ghanaian peacekeepers in Bentiu giving a workshop on how to handle mass casualty situations.
UNMISS Ghanaian Peacekeepers in Bentiu have provided capacity building to health workers operating in Bentiu and Rubkona to better handle causalities that may occur. The Ghanian battalion’s Senior Medical Officer Lt. Dr…
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JALALABAD - Relying on democratic processes in Afghan society is of critical importance, said panellists at a UNAMA-backed TV roundtable in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar province. “Democracy is…