Peacekeeping news

NICOSIA, 10 July 2017 – This Monday, under the setting Cyprus sun, 248 military personnel trooped across the UN flight hangar to receive awards in the service of peace. Officiating at the event were Head of Mission and…

Strategy and problem-solving skills were on full display when the second annual Bi-communal Chess Tournament took place at Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN buffer zone. Held during the months of May and June, the tournament…

In the ongoing effort to improve the overall performance of United Nations peacekeeping missions, the heads of the armed forces of around 100 countries met at UN Headquarters in New York today to discuss issues such as rapid…

Monrovia - UNMIL Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Political and Rule of Law, Waldemar Vrey today joined with Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, senior government officials…

Monrovia - UNMIL Police Commissioner Simon Blatchly today said that although countries in West Africa, including Liberia, are transit points, the trafficking of illicit drugs in the region is becoming a more complex issue. He…

Goma, July 3rd, 2017 - The North Kivu Civil Protection Service has organized a simulation exercise involving about 2, 000 families and constituting over 11, 000 persons on Monday 03 of July in Goma to evacuate the population…

Nairobi (Kenya), 6 July 2017 - The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes (O/SESG-GL) convened on 5 and 6…

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali today condemned continuing ceasefire violations by two signatories of the 2015 Peace and Reconciliation Agreement. The accord was signed in June 2015 by the Coordination des…

Izumi Nakamitsu has taken the helm of United Nations disarmament affairs at a time when needs are greatest for the world to invest in conflict prevention. Some argue that disarmament is not the right issue to negotiate when…

Monrovia - On July 5, UNMIL Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Peace Consolidation, Yacoub El Hillo challenged countries in the West African region to put in place systems that can help avert…

Opening of new Level II hospital gives confidence to UNMISS staff It has the sterile smell of an ordinary hospital as well as the same neatly packed surgical masks and gloves, medicines, needles and other supplies needed in a…

UNMISS Indian peacekeepers provide lifesaving care to seriously ill civilian Indian peacekeepers have today provided lifesaving medical assistance to a woman who collapsed near a UN base at Melut in the Upper Nile region of…