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Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous said he would pay a visit to Morocco this week to meet Moroccan officials and visit the headquarters of the UN mission to the Sahara, MINURSO. The announcement of this visit surprised many as the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy Christopher Ross saw his visit to Morocco postponed on […]
Members of the Security Council welcomed the deal between Morocco and the UN Secretary General to restore the MINURSO within the framework of its mandate, Morocco’s Ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale said on Tuesday in New York. The Security Council members expressed satisfaction regarding the deal to settle the crisis that broke out last […]
Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop has informed the U.N Security Council that the country’s stability is linked to the situation in Libya. Almost half of Mali was once under the control of the Al-Qaeda forces in the Maghreb before being pushed back by international forces. During the melee, the Touaregs also claimed their independence within […]
The United Nations peace keeping operations department is looking into the proposal to deploy a neutral force in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an attempt to quell the violence and alleviate the sufferings of the local population. The proposal to deploy a neutral international force along the Rwanda- DRC […]