Bissau - The Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro (Tanzania) arrives in Bissau Friday, June 29, at 9 a.m, for a 36-hour visit. During her stay, Dr. Migiro will meet President João Bernardo Vieira, President of…

UN News Centre - The mandate of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) has been extended by a year and streamlined to strengthen efforts to promote dialogue and reconciliation in the West…

UN News Centre - Guinea-Bissau's economic reconstruction remains so fragile that it is vital the country's main political figures show potential international donors and economic partners they can put national interests ahead…

UN News Centre - Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today that he plans to appoint Nigeria's Shola Omoregie as his new representative in Guinea-Bissau and as head of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office to the…

UN News Centre - Guinea-Bissau has made some progress towards political reconciliation, but the West African country remains so poor and enduring tensions are still strong enough that the risk of a major setback is ever…

UN News Centre - The international community must "persevere and stay the course" in helping Guinea-Bissau regain stability despite the slow progress in reconciliation that has kept donors wary and exacerbated economic…

UN News Centre - Lack of constructive political dialogue in Guinea-Bissau has undermined two vital State institutions, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today, as he called on all sections of society in the…

Special Representative Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah has strongly condemned the recent targeted attacks in Mogadishu aimed at delaying the ongoing work by the new Government to restore peace as well as the adoption of Sharia law by…

Nairobi, 17 April 2009 - The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has strongly condemned the recent targeted attacks in Mogadishu aimed at delaying the ongoing work by the new Government to restore…

KABUL - Two Afghan girls have won gold medals at an international education competition. Meena Sanjar, 17 and Rowida Abidi also 17 from Kabul’s Afghan-Turk girls’ high school came top at an education competition held on 3 and…

15 April 2009 - Sabza Bibi, 24, mother of two children is admitted to the Malalai hospital in Kabul due to an obstetric fistula. She developed this condition almost two years ago when she was in labour pain for two long days…

14 April 2009 - Rukha, one of the seven districts of the famous province of Panjsher, just north of Kabul, was today declared a peace district. Rukha is the second district in the province that has disbanded illegally armed…