Africa

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Central African Republic: Guterres says UN mission committed to protecting civilians, helping stabilize country, as violence flares

17 November 2018
Peace and Security

Amid a recent uptick in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday said he stood in solidarity with the crisis torn country and warned that attacks against defenseless civilians and UN ‘blue helmets’ may amount to war crimes.

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UN chief condemns killing of ‘blue helmets’ in DR Congo, as violence erupts prior to elections

15 November 2018
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Gutteres condemned the killing of seven peacekeepers on Wednesday serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is also confronting a lethal Ebola outbreak.

MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko

Sahel States need international support ‘now more than ever’– UN peacekeeping chief

15 November 2018
Peace and Security

Africa’s crisis-torn Sahel region needs support from the international community “now more than ever,” the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council on Thursday.

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Eritrea sanctions lifted amid growing rapprochement with Ethiopia: Security Council

14 November 2018
Peace and Security

A range of international sanctions imposed against Eritrea nearly a decade ago, were unanimously lifted by the Security Council on Wednesday, four months after the signing of an historic peace agreement with Ethiopia in July.

UNDP/Clotilde Goeman

CLIMATE CHANGE FOCUS: DR Congo Prospers from Environmental Protection

13 November 2018
Climate Change

Families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are being supported by their government and the United Nations to protect the environment and build what the UN Development Programme calls “climate-resilient lives.”

MONUSCO/Mamadou Alain Coulibaly

Government must ‘secure’ polls in key DR Congo vote due next month: UN envoy

13 November 2018
Peace and Security

With key national elections due next month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), armed groups in the east of the country still threaten to derail the vote, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.

UN Photo/WFP/Phil Behan

Building climate resilience and peace, go hand in hand for Africa’s Sahel – UN forum

13 November 2018
Peace and Security

To build a sustainable peace in Africa’s Sahel region, “urgent attention” is needed to mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure that communities have access to sufficient opportunities, a joint meeting between the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Peacebuilding Commission highlighted on Tuesday.

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UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa

12 November 2018
Humanitarian Aid

Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.

UN Photo/Stuart Price

Somalia: UN Security Council condemns terrorist attack in which dozens were killed or injured

11 November 2018
Peace and Security

The members of the United Nations Security Council, on Saturday, condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Friday’s car bomb attack in Somalia, in which dozens of innocent women, children and men were killed or injured, and reiterated that any acts of terrorism are "criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed".

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Somalis ‘will not be deterred’ by Friday’s terror attacks – UN chief

9 November 2018
Peace and Security

Following Friday’s bomb attacks and gunfire in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, UN Chief António Guterres on Friday expressed his faith that Somalis “will not be deterred” in their pursuit of lasting peace and political stability.