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SHARANA - Agreement between community leaders on a programme to support local peace initiatives was a key outcome of a UN-backed event in southeastern Paktika province. During the gathering, more than 40 participants –…
A delegate casts her vote during the electoral process in Baidoa, Somalia on 5 December 2016. UN Photo
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Somalia’s South West State completed elections for 69 seats in the House of the People today, becoming the second federal state to do so after Jubbaland. The last day of voting saw the reelection of two former members of…
Students of Simad University, a premier private university in Mogadishu, Somalia, attend a lecture on 3 December 2016. UN Photo
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A group of second-year students is listening closely to the retired police general Jama Mohamed Ghalib as he delivers an hour-long lecture on Somalia’s turbulent political history in a classroom at Simad University. A…
A delegate votes during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the People in Jowhar, Somalia on 4 December 2016. UN Photo
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Five more candidates were elected today to seats in the House of the People in Banaadir region and HirShabelle state in the latest round of voting. In Banaadir, Fahma Ahmed Nuur, a former Deputy Minister of Justice, and…
KABUL - A new United Nations report released today indicates positive trends in Afghanistan’s juvenile detention and rehabilitation facilities while also outlining a critical need to improve in-detention education and post…
SRSG Mohamed Ibn Chambas
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- Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for your presence, This is my third visit to The Gambia this year. In May, I came here as a member of the ECOWAS-AU-UN Joint High Level Mission. I was also here on 10 November. The main…
A delegate votes during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the People in Jowhar, Somalia on 3 December 2016. UN Photo
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Three more candidates have been elected to the House of the People in the past two days from the states of HirShabelle, South West and Galmudug as the electoral process enters its final stage. Two of the three newly elected…
Tunis, Tunisia – The World Health Organization is deeply concerned about the deaths of neonates in Libya as a result of the deteriorating health system. From July to August this year, 73 neonates died, including 22 due to…
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Uvira, 2 December 2016 – The United Nations Stabilization Mission in DRC, MONUSCO officially launched this Friday 2 December an Operational Strategy on the fight against insecurity in Uvira named “SOLIUV”. The ceremony was co…
"I believe cultural change will favour women, especially when we move to party politics, where leaders are elected on the basis of their manifestos and not gender,” the words of Suldan Warsame Suldan Alio Ibrow, an influential clan elder from Somalia’s South West state.
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“Ultimately, I believe cultural change will favour women, especially when we move to party politics, where leaders are elected on the basis of their manifestos and not gender.” These words by Suldan Warsame Suldan Alio Ibrow…
Mohamud Hassan Elmi, Deputy Chair of the Jubbaland State Level Indirect Electoral Independent Team says they benefited greatly from the support of the state authorities which gave them the independence to conduct their work unhindered.
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On 24 November Jubbaland became the first Federal State in Somalia to conclude selection of candidates for seats in the House of the People. Now the state's electoral officials are being invited by other Federal States to…
Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Libya and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Martin Kobler is extremely alarmed by the ongoing clashes in Tripoli which are reported to have…