On the eve of national elections, the Secretary-General strongly encourages Sierra Leoneans to ensure that the same peaceful spirit that has characterized the electoral process thus far prevails on election day as well as…

15 November 2012 - The United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in Guinea-Bissau, UNIOGBIS, and the Supreme Court, formally launched on Wednesday 14 November 2012 at the National Center for the Training of Magistrates…

Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, 13 November 2012 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly today visited Tripoli. He met political leaders and the Mufti of Tripoli and the North, Sheikh Malek El-Shaar. He also…

PAKTYA - With almost 40 per cent of schools across Paktya province having no proper buildings, hundreds of school students are still studying under tents, trees shade and unhealthy learning environment, residents complained…

URUZGAN - During their meeting with the Uruzgan Provincial Governor, Amir Mohammad Akhunzada, tribal leaders pledged to grow legal crops instead of poppy in their fields. “We will not allow anyone to grow poppy in Uruzgan and…

HELMAND - Officials at the Provincial Department of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (RRD) said they had implemented several development projects in Nad Ali, Washir and Nahr-e-Saraj districts of Helmand province and…

Amidst hundreds of youth chanting, "no to violence," the head of the United Nations in Sierra Leone visited the country's east earlier this week and appealed for peaceful elections.

NANGARHAR - A local development shura, supported by the local Government departments and the UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT), started rehabilitation work of two water canals in Zair Jumat area in Jalalabad city…

Mogadishu, 13 November 2012 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga, has welcomed the overwhelming endorsement by the Somali Federal Parliament of the Council of…

Mogadishu, 13 November 2012 – A three-day Round Table organized by UNPOS on how to streamline human rights due diligence policy to the support that the United Nations is offering to security entities was concluded in Somalia.

Ameerah Haq, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Support made her first visit to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday 13 November 2012, where she called on the newly elected President Sheikh Mohamud to congratulate…