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Nairobi, 09 June 2011 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has expressed his satisfaction over the agreement signed by the President of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the Speaker of Parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh…

Kampala, 09 June 2011 – The President of the Transitional Federal Government and the Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament met in Kampala, Uganda under the auspices of H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the facilitation of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the…

Nairobi, 09 June 2011 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has expressed his satisfaction over the agreement, known as the Kampla Accord, signed by the President of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the Speaker of…

Burundi inaugurates Independent National Human Rights Commissioners

Burundi inaugurates Independent National Human Rights Commissioners

Hosting Justice Mohamed Othman Chande. Read the full transcript

According to the most recent country-wide needs assessment, 2.4 million people, one in three Somalis, are in need of humanitarian assistance, a 20 percent increase in the number of vulnerable compared to the second half of 2010. The increase is due to a combination of drought, skyrocketing food…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Participants from nineteen countries and the European Union, international and regional organizations, financial institutions, business and academia arrived in Ashgabat for a two-day meeting to discuss concrete projects on economic cooperation between Central Asia and…

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06 June 2011 - Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, the Military Advisor to the United Nations Headquarters, visited the troubled Sudanese region of Abyei and the other two likely flashpoints of the country, namely the Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States on 02 and 03 June 2011. The General was…