GENEVA – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Government of Ethiopia are working together to manage the influx of vulnerable Ethiopian migrants returning from...
FREETOWN – Sixteen distinguished jurists today were sworn-in as Judges of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, the institution which will succeed the Special Court...
MOGADISHU – UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia Nicholas Kay paid tribute today to Somalia’s outgoing Prime Minister, Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid, and noted...
GENEVA – The United Nations Working Group* of Experts on People of African Descent will undertake its first visit Brazil from 3 to 13 December 2013...
GENEVA – Four in five refugees in the camps at Dadaab do not want to return to Somalia given the current climate of insecurity, finds an...
EL FASHER – The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the Government of Sudan (GoS) police held a strategic workshop in Khartoum On 27...
ADDIS ABABA – The African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui, on 27 November 2013, received the European Union (EU) Director for...
GENEVA – In Mali, despite a certain political normalization, the armed conflict that has been under way for almost two years makes access to health care...
GENEVA – MSF renews call to the international community, especially UN agencies, to increase its response to the ongoing crisis A further wave of mass displacement...
PARIS – The UN Security Council met two days ago to discuss different options on how to respond to the growing crisis in the Central African...