News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
On 2 February in Villavicencio, Meta, the Unit for the Search for Persons Deemed as Missing (UBDP) presented its report on the first five years of management as part of the integral system for peace. According to the report…
For the first time in Cumaribo, the largest town in Colombia, young people from seven Departments played football together to foster peace and reconciliation. Participants included former combatants, victims of the conflict…
On 3 February, the SRSG to the AU and Head of UNOAU, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador of South Africa to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU, Ambassador Edward Xolisa Makaya, who is…
1 February 2023 | The AUPSC convened its 1136th session to discuss the situation in Libya. The session which was chaired by the Permanent Representative of South Africa, AUPSC Chair of the month of February, Ambassador Edward…
On 31 January, UNOAU signed the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The objective of this MoU is to provide a framework for…
Development | UN-Habitat installs streetlights to promote access and security in Berbera UN-Habitat started installing solar streetlights on a six kilometre road leading to the Batalaale beach in Berbera, Somaliland. The…
by Mohamed Belaiche, Ambassador for the African Union to Sudan Volker Perthes, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan Ismail Wais, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Special…
On 29 September 2022, the 3 rd Cyprus Forum, the largest policy-making forum on the divided island, featured a discussion on the underreported topic of Sport and Peacebuilding. The panel session facilitated by the UN Office…
On 30 January, the SRSG to the AU and Head of UNOAU paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Hu Changchun, the Head of the Mission of China to the AU. The SRSG UNOAU briefed the Ambassador on the UN-AU Joint Framework for enhanced…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) strongly condemns the killing of an aid worker in Blue Nile State. “I am deeply…
In Cúcuta, families cultivate cocoa to promote peace In the village of El 25 in the rural area of Cúcuta, in the department of Norte de Santander, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, twenty-seven families started…