News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Resolution 2619 (2022) – Adopted by the Security Council at its 8961st meeting, on 31 January 2022.
The members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) held their Fifteenth Annual Joint Consultative Meeting virtually from 16-17 December 2021. The members of the…
Chun Jie Kuai Le! Happy Lunar New Year. I am pleased to send you my warmest greetings as we begin the Year of the Tiger. The tiger denotes strength, vitality, courage, tenacity, and boldness. These are qualities we need as we…
Tripoli, 30 January 2022 – United Nations agencies reinforced their commitment to support people in Libya’s South during a visit to Sabha of a UN delegation, that included Special Advisor of the UN Secretary-General in Libya…
The Peace Conference for Political Party Presidents in Zambia ahead of the general elections scheduled for the 12 August and co-convened by the Zambia Centre for Inter-Party Dialogue (ZCID) and the Church Mother Bodies (CMBs)…
Ahead of this meeting, UNOAU working with the African Union Partnership Team of the UN Department of Peacebuilding and Political Affairs (UNDPPA), and with the generous support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
GENEVA (26 January 2022) – Haiti’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 31 January 2022 in a meeting that will be…
INFORMATION NOTE Joint UNOWAS-ECOWAS Mission To Burkina Faso Dakar, 29 January 2022 -The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat…
On 8 September, the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) held an open session to commemorate the 2021 Africa Amnesty Month. In his opening remarks, the AUPSC Chair for the month of September, also Permanent…
The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its twentieth consultative meeting via virtual platform on 5 November. The meeting reviewed the status of the partnership between the United Nations…
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres and AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomed the continuing strong cooperation between the two Organizations on 2 December at the UN headquarters in New York. The…
On 27 November, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Tetteh attended the Luanda Biennial – Pan African Forum for the Culture of Peace organised in partnership between UNESCO, the Government of Angola and…