Government urged to support safe withdrawal of UN Mission from Mali
Mali must ensure that the UN Mission in the country, MINUSMA, can safely complete its drawdown by the end of the year, amid insecurity in the north and other restrictions.
Libya: Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’
Briefing the Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily noted the thousands of lives lost by the dam bursts which destroyed whole neighbourhoods after Storm Daniel slammed the region on 10 September. The…
‘Patience’ and dialogue with Taliban only way forward: Afghanistan mission chief
Roza Otunbayeva, a former President and Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan, serves as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in the…
Haiti: Guterres welcomes decision to deploy multinational mission
Stéphane Dujarric was speaking a day after the Security Council voted to send the non-UN mission to the Caribbean country, where armed groups have taken control of large areas of…
UN Karabakh mission told ‘sudden’ exodus means as few as 50 ethnic Armenians may remain
In a statement issued following Sunday’s mission led by the UN’s Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan, together with other senior agency officials, they heard and saw for themselves that in the…
INTERVIEW: How new mission could support gang-ravaged Haiti
This week, the Security Council will consider a draft resolution on a new non-UN multinational mission under the UN Charter’s Chapter VII provision allowing the use of force. “This is…
Security Council authorizes ‘historic’ support mission in Haiti
The mission was requested by the Haitian Government and civil society representatives, following months of chaos and steadily worsening conditions affecting civilians. There have been more than 3,000 homicides reported…
DR Congo: UN mission still disinformation target, as withdrawal speculation grows
Attacks on local populations, roadblocks and denial of humanitarian access, continue to fuel suffering in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, Special Representative Bintou Keita told the Security Council…
The first mission to land an asteroid sample from space is complete
Houston: The American space agency NASA has completed the first mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space. The science capsule reached the Earth after traveling a distance of…
The probability of an Indian space mission becoming active is diminishing rapidly
New Delhi: India’s space mission Chandrayaan 3, which successfully landed on the moon on August 23 last month, has gone missing. However, efforts to restore contact with the mission are…