"COUNTER-TERRORISM"

The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa told the Security Council that terrorism and insecurity continue to spread in the Sahel, devastating the lives of millions of people. UNIFEED

Amid alarm over Mali’s withdrawal from regional security architecture, top peace official briefs Security Council on challenges to ending terrorism in Sahel.

Iraq’s people still awaiting political class capable of addressing critical domestic challenges, top official tells Security Council.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Secretary-General António Guterres visited displaced people and refugees from Mali in Ouallam, Niger, to demonstrate his and the United Nations’ solidarity with those who have been driven from their homes. UNIFEED

Amid executions, forced disappearances in Mali, mission head tells Security Council little progress made towards implementing peace agreement.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2628 (2022), Security Council endorses decision to reconfigure existing entity into African Union Transition Mission in Somalia.

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

A new human rights report presented at the United Nations in Geneva draws a clear line between the torture and extraordinary rendition that have been part of the so-called ‘war on terror’ and contemporary practices of mass arbitrary detention and torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in Xinjiang, China and northeast Syria. UNTV CH

Spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office Ravina Shamdasani said, “We have received disturbing reports that at least seven people were executed in Egypt last week. The death sentences in these cases were issued in trials that were credibly reported not to have met fair trial and due process standards.” UNTV CH