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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

Addressing the Security Council, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia, Jean Arnault said, “throughout the implementation phase of the Peace Agreement, circumstances have occasionally tested the commitment of the two parties to stay the course. They have stayed the course.” UNIFEED

An indigenous human rights activist from Kenya told reporters today that her community is facing threats of violence and evictions from the Embobut forest in the country. UNIFEED

During her visit to South Sudan, a high-ranking United Nations official said she is “particularly appalled by the violence this conflict has brought against women and girls in South Sudan.” UNMISS

The United Nations (UN) today held a memorial service to honour UN personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty between July 2016 and the end of last year. UNIFEED

At the opening of a forum on the future of work in the information age, Christine Lagarde, the IMF Managing Director compared the titans of the information age to those of the so-called “Gilded Age” of the late 19th century when railroads were the high-tech sector of the economy. IMF

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu told the Security Council that samples collected by the UN chemical watchdog (OPCW) team “confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used on 4 March in Salisbury.” UNIFEED

During a press conference in Washington today, IMF Director of Fiscal Affairs Department Vitor Gaspar said, “In the Fiscal Monitor, we urge policymakers to avoid pro-cyclical policy actions that provide unnecessary stimulus when economic activity is already pacing up. Instead, most countries should deliver on their fiscal plans and put deficits and debt firmly on a downward path. As I said, there is no room for complacency.” IMF

During a press conference in Washington on the Global Financial Stability Report, IMF Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, Tobias Adrian, told reporters “the economic recovery has remained resilient despite market volatility. But investors and policymakers should not take too much comfort from today’s relatively easy financial conditions.” IMF

Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is projected to reach 3.1 percent in 2018, and to average 3.6 percent in 2019–20, says Africa’s Pulse, a bi-annual analysis of the state of African economies conducted by the World Bank, released today. WORLD BANK