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Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti (centre), Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General, addresses the Security Council meeting on options for authorization and support for African Union peace support operations

UN Photo/Evan Schneider

UN cooperation with African Union must be institutionalized, less 'ad hoc,' Security Council told

15 June 2017

The United Nations must move towards a more institutionalized approach for the joint planning, mandating, financing and supporting of African Union (AU) peace-support operations, the Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet told the Security Council today.

UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein (file Photo)

UN and Africa: focus on South Sudan, CAR and partnerships for peace

13 October 2016

UN and Africa

“Extreme concern” over increased armed conflict in South Sudan

Fabrizio Hochschild, new Deputy Special Representative for the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

OCHA/Héctor Latorre

Ban appoints Chilean national as Deputy Special Representative for Central African Republic

22 July 2016

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Fabrizio Hochschild of Chile as his new Deputy Special Representative for the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

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UN Gender Focus: women in the Great Lakes region, Libyan women and women leaders in Botswana

31 March 2016

UN Gender Focus

Great Lakes women demand more active role in peace talks

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

African women need “more access” to the “formal” jobs market

17 March 2016

General News

African women are well represented in the “informal” jobs sector, but need “more access” to the formal workplace.

So says Nigerian economist, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who is best known for her two terms as Nigerian Finance Minister and as a Managing Director of the World Bank.

She said that many career women still feel “the odds are stacked against them” in rising to the top, but Millennials in their 20s are breaking down barriers.

UN ideals can benefit from synergy of Afro-Arab cooperation, says Ban

11 October 2010

Cooperation between African and Arab States can boost United Nations efforts to prevent and resolve conflicts in the two regions, promote tolerance, combat drug trafficking, terrorism and corruption, and strengthen the campaign against unemployment and climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.

The Paoua market area in the Central African Republic

Senior UN aid official visits Central African town beset by recent violence

27 July 2009

A senior United Nations humanitarian official has kicked off a five-day visit to the Central African Republic (CAR) by visiting a north-eastern town that last month was the scene of deadly inter-ethnic violence that also displaced several thousand inhabitants.

Commercial activity in the Central African Republic capital, Bangui.

Senior UN aid official to visit Central African Republic

24 July 2009

A senior United Nations aid official heads to the Central African Republic (CAR) this weekend for a five-day visit to assess the humanitarian situation and spotlight the perilous situation faced by the impoverished country’s civilians.

Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro

Migiro travels to Libya for African Union summit

29 June 2009

Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will represent the United Nations at this week’s African Union (AU) summit in Sirte, Libya, it was announced today.

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Central African Republic: UN envoy voices deep concern over recent violence

13 August 2008

The Secretary-General’s Special Representative to the Central African Republic (CAR) today expressed his deep concern over insecurity in the country’s north-east, stressing that violence threatens the ceasefire and peace accord signed by the parties in May.

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