Press Releases

23 October 2010 - The United Nations in Afghanistan condemns in the strongest terms the attack which took place today at 11:58 a.m. against the United Nations operations centre in Herat, in the west of Afghanistan. The attack…

Hosting Mr. David Gressly, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan. Read the full transcript

New York, 21 October 2010 – The Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki‐moon, addressed the Security Council meeting. The Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union, Mr. Ramtane Lamamra, also addressed the meeting.

Hosting Mr. Haile Menkerios, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Sudan. Read the full transcript

Nairobi, 15 October 2010 – The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, congratulates Somalia's new Prime Minister, Mohamed A. Mohamed, appointed yesterday by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.…

Nairobi, 15 October 2010 – The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, congratulates Somalia's new Prime Minister, Mohamed A. Mohamed, appointed yesterday by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.…

Communiqué of the 245 th Meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union. Addis Ababa, 15 October 2010

Hosting Ambassador Ruhukana Rugunda, the Representative of Uganda, Ambassador Susan Rice, the US Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, the UK Permanent Representative. Read the full transcript

Members of the United Nations Secretary-General's panel tasked with monitoring the upcoming referenda on self-determination in Sudan have arrived today in Khartoum to begin their first visit to the country. The three-member…

A UNAMID patrol was ambushed yesterday 16 km south west of Kutum, North Darfur. A group of about seven armed men opened fire on the patrol, which was escorting a water tanker. The attackers fled when the UNAMID soldiers…