Press Releases

Nairobi, 20 July 2011 - The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somalipopulation – 3.7 million people…

New York, le 19 juillet 2011 - The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack today on the residence in Conakry of President Alpha Condé of Guinea. He stresses that no disagreements or differences justify recourse to…

Nairobi, 15 July 2011 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has congratulated Somalia's political leadership, in particular, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the…

Nairobi, 15 July 2011 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, has congratulated Somalia's political leadership, in particular, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the…

SRSG's visit in Kanyosha

8 July 2011 - The Security Council today voiced satisfaction with the progress countries in West Africa are making towards greater peace and stability, welcoming the positive developments in post-conflict recovery and…

Hosting Mr. Haile Menkerios, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Sudan.

Hosting Mr. DAVID GRESSLY, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan.

Communiqué of the 18 th Extra-Ordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government. Addis Ababa, 04 July 2011

Addis Ababa, 4 July 2011 – The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 18th Extraordinary Summit, in which the leaders discussed Somalia. [Communiqué]