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Colombia: UN Mission to monitor ceasefire with ELN rebel group

·August 7, 2023·1 min read

The truce with the ELN, the Spanish acronym for National Liberation Army, comes into effect on Thursday and will last for 180 days, according to media reports. The development follows nearly 10 months of negotiations and is part of the “total peace” policy of President Gustavo Petro, who took office...

UN Security Council terminates Mali peacekeeping mission

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·June 30, 2023·3 min read

Security Council members reiterated strong support for the full withdrawal of the decade-old UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), and the transfer of security responsibilities to the country’s transitional Government, which has been in power since a coup in 2021. Commending the peacekeeping operation and its staff, UN Secretary-General...

Afghanistan mission chief to Taliban: Bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad

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·June 21, 2023·2 min read

UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working. “We will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them not...

UN Mission backs constitutional referendum in Mali

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·June 17, 2023·2 min read

“This is obviously an important time for the mission, coinciding with discussions on the renewal of its mandate, and also for Mali, which continues to face complex security and other forms of challenges,” Special Representative El-Ghassim Wane told ambassadors. The long-awaited vote on Sunday marks the first phase towards presidential...

Regional stability still at risk without ‘increased commitment’ to negotiations: UN Kosovo mission chief

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·April 28, 2023·1 min read

UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations...

WHO mission to Syria quake zone boosts protection from disease outbreaks

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·April 23, 2023·1 min read

“The focus of the mission was to enhance the capacity of the early warning alert and response network (EWARN) and ensure rapid detection, verification and response to communicable diseases alerts and outbreaks”, the WHO office for the Eastern Mediterranean said in a statement issued on Thursday. They identified areas in preparedness and...

UN mission signs new plan for election security in Central African Republic

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·February 16, 2023·1 min read

The security plan represents “an essential tool” paving the way for the coming local elections, UN mission spokesperson Vladimir Monteiro said. Voters will be casting ballots in local elections for the first time since 1988. The Government of CAR and the UN stabilization mission (MINUSCA) signed a new plan on...

Colombia: UN mission to verify rural reform and indigenous representation in peace process

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·January 12, 2023·2 min read

Carlos Ruiz Massieu welcomed recent Government actions on rural reform and greater equality, in line with the 2016 Peace Agreement between the Government and the FARC EP militia group that ended five decades of civil war. “The Council’s decision today to authorize the expansion of the Mission’s mandate to include...

Grant to UN Mission in Mali boosts inclusivity for women in peacekeeping

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·December 20, 2022·2 min read

The allocation is from the Elsie Initiative Fund (EIF), which supports women’s meaningful participation in UN peacekeeping overall. The funding comes at a time when three countries that contribute police officers to UN field operations – Nigeria, Senegal and Togo – have committed to increasing and sustaining the deployment...

DR Congo: UN regrets Government move to expel Mission spokesperson |

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·August 5, 2022·1 min read

On Thursday, the head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, briefed a closed-door session of the Security Council to discuss the situation in the country, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York. Ambassadors met a day after Congolese authorities officially expelled the MONUSCO Spokesperson from the country, reportedly for...

UN delegation returns from human rights fact-finding mission in Ethiopia |

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·August 3, 2022·2 min read

The UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia is mandated to conduct a thorough and impartial probe into allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law. Specifically, it will investigate violations of international humanitarian law and international refugee law in Ethiopia state committed on 3 November...