1 April 2011 - "We can confirm that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) operations centre in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan has been attacked today following a demonstration. We can also…

1 April 2011 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, this week travelled to Brasilia and Lisbon as part of the organization efforts to mobilize international community for…

Nairobi, 1 April 2011 - High Level Consultative Meeting to take place on 12 and 13 April 2011. [English] [Somali]

31 March 2011 - There were fewer Afghan asylum-seekers in 2010 and this could, in part, be due to tighter immigration controls in destination countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Afghan Ministry of…

30 March 2011 -- With the post-electoral deadlock in Côte d'Ivoire now entering its fifth month and the crisis showing no signs of abating, the Security Council today demanded an immediate end to the violence against…

31 March 2011 -- "The Secretary-General is closely following the rapidly evolving events in Côte d'Ivoire and is concerned about the heightened violence," according to a statement attributable to his Spokesman.He urges all…

30 March 2011- The world’s poorest countries are making progress but the gap between them and their wealthier counterparts is getting larger, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. Afghanistan is one of the…

29 March 2011 - Taliban “supreme leader” Mullah Mohammad Omar has issued a decree instructing insurgents not to attack schools and intimidate schoolchildren, according to the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE). IRIN story “In…

30 March 2011 – More than 300 tribal elders and Afghan officials from Uruzgan met on Sunday with members of the High Peace Council to discuss peace and reconciliation efforts. “We should start the reconciliation efforts…

28 March 2011 – Staffan de Mistura took up his current assignment as the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA) in January 2010…

"Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow" 29 March 2011 - The discovery of antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines has been responsible for some of the most dramatic advances in human health…