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Saïd Djinnit (g) et le Ministre congolais des Affaires étrangères (Ph. Pénangnini Touré)
Kinshasa, 11 décembre 2015 - L’envoyé spécial du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour la région des Grands Lacs, Saïd Djinnit, a été désigné par Ban Ki-moon pour rencontrer la classe politique congolaise dans le cadre du…
ASG Modibo Toure of the Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region (left) making his opening remarks at the Forum for Small & Medium Enterprises in Nairobi, 16 October 2015 (Photo: United Nations/Penangnini Toure)
Nairobi, 17 October 2015 - A regional forum of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) took place in Nairobi on 16 and 17 October 2015. The Forum, which is part of the implementing activities of the Peace, Security and…
Special Envoy Said Djinnit (5th from left with UNHCR cap) at Mahama camp, which currently hosts 74,349 refugees, mostly women and children, from Burundi
Nairobi, 27 August 2015 – The United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, travelled to Kigali on 19-22 August 2015 to have discussions with government officials on the implementation of the Peace…
Participants in the 3-4 August 2015 meeting in Gisenyi, Rwanda
Gisenyi, 13 August 2015 - A team from the Office of the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region (OSESG-GL) and a delegation of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (in French CEPGL - Communauté économique…
Said Djinnit, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region. Photo: UN Photo
New York, July 3, 2015 - While in New York in June the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, gave an interview to the UN Radio. The weekly magazine Escale, where he was speaking, was…
Said Djinnit, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region. Photo: OSESG-GL/UN/Penangnini Toure
New York, 25 June 2015 - In an interview with UN Radio, Saïd Djinnit, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, has specifically revisited the situation in Burundi, after the violent incidents experienced…
Participants at the Women’s Platform meeting in Goma, eastern DRC, 14 May 2015. Photo: UN/OSESG-GL/Penangnini Toure
Goma, 15 May, 2015 – A three-day meeting of the Women's Platform for the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region was held in Goma, North Kivu…
Assistant Secretary-General Modibo I. Toure (right) addresses the forum of civil society organizations during the opening ceremony in Entebbe, Uganda. 29 April 2015. Photo: UN/OSESG-GL
Entebbe, 29 April 2015 – The regional consultation framework bringing together delegates from civil society organizations in the Great Lakes region opened on Wednesday, 29 April, in Entebbe, Uganda. The meeting aimed to…
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region Said Djinnit (left), meets President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi in the capital Bujumbura on 27 April 2015. Photo: UN Electoral Observation Mission in Burundi (MENUB)
28 April 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has today condemned the outbreak of violence in Burundi following the nomination of President Pierre Nkurunziza as the presidential candidate of the country’s…
Nairobi, 2 April 2015 – The United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, met on 2 April 2015 with the Kenyan Foreign Cabinet Secretary, Amina Mohamed, in a bid to revitalize regional dialogue and…
17-18 December 2014 - The Regional Consultation Conference on the Private Sector Investment Opportunities in the Great Lakes Region held in Luanda, Angola. The meeting was convened jointly by the Government of Angola, the…
20 December 2014 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Mr. Said Djinnit, visited Kinshasa from 19-20 December and met with the President of the Republic of the Democratic Republic of Congo…