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With the help of a local women's association and with support from the United Nations mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), four women have started a cell phone repair business that has changed their lives. MINUSTAH
With the help of a local women's association and with support from the United Nations mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), four women have started a cell phone repair business that has changed their lives. MINUSTAH
Nigel Fisher, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, ad interim, says that over the past year, Haiti's annual economic growth rate "fell well below forecast levels." UNTV
Motorists and pedestrians make their way home or run errands as darkness falls in Mogadishu – once referred to as 'the most dangerous city in the world'. The once deserted streets of the Somali capital are now a hive of activity, with shops and restaurants doing brisk business in various parts of the city well [...]
Burundi’s AMISOM contingent has been in Somalia since 2007 when street battles, mortar fire, and suicide bombings in Mogadishu were at their height. Medics working with the contingent have also been operating an outpatient clinic for SNA and AMISOM at Somalia’s former National University. AU-UN/IST
In Haiti, the old practice of lynching people is prohibited by law – yet in the South-eastern district of Belle-Anse it still seems to be common practice. MINUSTAH
Somali government troops, with the backing of African Union forces, have met with elders and other influential leaders in Buur-Hakba, as part of efforts to secure the strategic town which they captured from Al Shabaab fighters on Wednesday (February 27). AU/UN /IST
A National Plan to eliminate Cholera from Haiti was launched yesterday in Port-au-Prince. MINUSTAH
Somali government forces with the support of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) are on a sustained offensive against the handful of al-Shabaab bases left in the country's Bay Region. AU-UN/IST
A UN Volunteer from Nigeria brought the idea of recycling bottles into useful and beautiful objects from his previous job with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He set up a project through which young people are now transforming between four and five thousand bottles each week. MINUSTAH
Recently appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti briefed journalists in Port-au-Prince today. MINUSTAH