"CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION"

Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The UN senior official for Africa, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, warned the Security Council that some countries in Central Africa face political and security challenges that, if not addressed, “could risk impacting neighbouring countries and the sub-region.” UNIFEED

Security challenges threaten to derail democratic strides in Central African Region, briefers tell Security Council.

Informal comments to the media by Mona Juul, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations, and Harold Adlai Agyeman, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations, following the vote on a resolution on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. 

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa, François Louncény Fall said, “Central Africa has continued to grapple with a worsening situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccination campaigns in the subregion have remained generally slow and asymmetric.” He called upon the international community to “continue supporting Central Africa in its efforts to contain the pandemic and mitigate its impact.” UNIFEED

Despite electoral progress, Central African countries still besieged by terrorism, humanitarian crisis, Special Representative tells Security Council.

Some 36 million people are expected to be food insecure in 2022 in West and Central Africa between June and August 2022, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned today. This is a 24 percent increase compared to 2020. UNTV CH

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General 

Violence continues to threaten stability in Central Africa, Special Representative tells Security Council, calling for greater international efforts.

The Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), François Louncény Fall, said the recent developments in Chad “have underlined the interlinkages between the security situation in that country and the security situation in the subregion,” adding that the security dynamics in neighbouring countries “could negatively affect the internal dynamics in Chad.” UNIFEED