In February 2013, Award Winning Photographer Marco Grob, who is a big supporter of the UN Mine Action Services (UNMAS), visited South Sudanto take photos of the work UNMAS and other Mine Action Non-Government Organizations were doing in the Country. The Photos were handed over to UNMAS and have been displayed to create awareness of [...]
An unprecedented coalition of Somali security forces and troops with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have launched an operation today (May 21) to neutralise lingering insurgent elements blamed for a recent spate of violence in the capital Mogadishu. AU-UN/IST
After succeeding in pushing al Shabaab insurgents out of Mogadishu Ugandan soldiers from Battle Group 9+, a contingent serving under the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) are retuning home. AU-UN/IST
Briefing the Security Council today, Margaret Vogt Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations (UN) Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (CAR) says that "there is an urgent need to restore security stability in the CAR." UNTV
The United Nations General Assembly today approved a resolution condemning the Syrian Government and giving recognition to the Syrian National Coalition by 107 votes in favour, 12 votes against and 59 abstentions. UNTV
Since the departure of extremist group al Shabaab in 2011, Somalia's National Security Forces and their African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) partners, have been collecting and destroying unexploded ordnance (UXOs) from all over the Somali capital. AU / UN IST
While talking about the recent (4 May) attack by ethnic Misseriya pastoralist tribesmen on a UN convoy in Abyei, South Sudan's Ambassador said today (9 May) at the United Nations that "this was not by any means an isolated incident." He added that "it is a culmination of a pattern." UNTV
In a statement issued yesterday the United nations Secretary-General expressed grave concern about reports of air strikes in Syria by the Israeli Air Force. UNTV
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today renewed his appeal for unfettered access to Syriafor the UN team probing the alleged use of chemical weapons during the conflict, as he met in New Yorkwith the head of the investigation, Dr. Åke Sellström. UNTV
The Second Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) opened today in Geneva against the backdrop of rising nuclear tensions in the Korean peninsula and Iran's nuclear enrichment programme. CH UNTV