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At the Security Council’s final meeting on Liberia, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alexander Zouev said today marked a “historic milestone” for the country after 25 years of constant presence on the Council’s agenda. UNIFEED

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack on the UN camp and the French operation Barkhane’s camp in Timbuktu, Mali and recalled that “attacks targeting peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.” UNIFEED / FILE

As the only female fighter pilot in the El Salvador contingent in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Sandra Hernandez feels her work “can help bring security and some more stability and tranquilly to the Malian people.” MINUSMA

The Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Mahamat Saleh Annadif, told journalists that one of the reasons MINUSMA registers the highest number of deaths among UN missions is that it is “a peace mission but it is being deployed in an environment where there is no peace.” UNIFEED / FILE

In an election year in Mali, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, told the Security Council that the implementation of the peace agreement “needs to remain a priority, and it must not become political football.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) held a memorial ceremony in honour of three peacekeepers who lost their lives as a result of two attacks last week. MINUSMA

United Nations spokesperson said Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the mortar attack which killed two Chadian peacekeepers and injured at least ten others yesterday in the Kidal region of Mali. UNIFEED / FILE

The NGO Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict issued its recommendations for the Secretary-General’s 2018 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, calling for the inclusion of the state security forces in Myanmar, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Israel, and non-state armed groups in the Central African Republic, Mali, and South Sudan in the list of perpetrators. UNIFEED

The number of migrants arriving by sea to Italy so far this year is less than half the figure for the same time last year and the lowest two-month total reported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) since 2014. UNTV CH

Four United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers were killed and four others were wounded in a recent attack against UN military vehicle in Mali. UNIFEED