UN News Centre
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 08:28
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned an improvised explosive device explosion in northern Mali which killed a United Nations peacekeeper and injured six other ‘blue helmets.’
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 06:50
The Security Council today extended the mandates of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and the Golan, in separate meetings, as part of its efforts to maintenance of international peace and security.
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 06:44
The countries of Africa’s Sahel region – struggling to cope with terrorism, weak governance and recurrent droughts ¬– need assistance to lay the foundations for stability and sustainable development, a United Nations special envoy told the Security Council today.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 07:46
“The international community speaks about fighting terrorism, but we need to pay more attention to the human consequences of this global scourge,” Jehangir Khan, Director of the Office of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), told the UN News Centre.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 12:25
The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations continued today his visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), where he met a range of stakeholders and pledged that “no effort will be spared” towards full deployment of a newly mandated 12,000-strong UN mission to help stabilize the crisis-riven country.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 08:56
The United Nations Security Council today called on countries emerging from conflict and all those assisting them to prioritize the development of domestic police and national defence forces that maintain rule of law and respect human rights, in its first-ever stand-alone resolution on security sector reform.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 08:32
The United Nations Security Council today called on countries emerging from conflict and all those assisting them to prioritize the development of domestic police and national defence forces.
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 09:23
Stepped-up rebel attacks, clashes fuelled by local political rivalries, and mass displacement sparked by the abuses of a pro-Government militia have again left long-troubled Darfur at a crossroads, said the United Nations peacekeeping chief today, appealing to the Security Council and its African Union (AU) counterpart for political support to move the warring factions towards lasting peace.
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 08:17
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed Laurence D. Wohlers of the United States as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-Genera for the newly-created United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCa).
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:17
The children were among the dozens of internally displaced persons (IDPs) attacked by gunmen on 17 April while sheltering at a UN site in the central South Sudanese town of Bor.