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Participants at the ECOSOC Youth Forum in New York, 29 January 2018
Nairobi, 15 February 2018 – The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Youth Forum participated in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum that took place at the United Nations…

Participant at the Principal-level meeting on displacement. Nairobi, Kenya, 22 January 2018 (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)
Nairobi, 22 January 2018 – The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and representatives of UN agencies, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations…

Participants at the Coordination meeting between the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and UN Resident Coordinators and Regional Directors of the Great Lakes region. Nairobi, Kenya, 22 January 2018 (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)
Nairobi, 22 January 2018 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, convened a coordination meeting on 22 January 2018 with UN Resident Coordinators and Regional Directors to review…

UN Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region (center) addressing the Peacebuilding Commission at the United Nations headquarters, New York, 27 November 2017 (Photo UN/Richard Bajornas)
New York, 27 November 2017 - In the morning of the 27 November 2017, the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region, Said Djinnit, briefed the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) at the United Nations…

UN Special Envoy Said Djinnit (left) and ICGLR Executive-Secretary Zachary Muburi-Muita meet in Bujumbura, 16 November 2017
Bujumbura, 23 November 2017 – The United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, and the Executive-Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Zachary Muburi-Muita, met…

Experts of the Great Lakes Judicial Cooperation Network (Photo by O/SESG-GL, Valery Super)
Khartoum, 6 November 2017 – The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) with support from the United Nations Office for the Great Lakes region and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)…

Special Envoy Said Djinnit talking to the media after the 8th High-Level Meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism for the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 19 October 2017 (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)
Brazzaville, 19 October 2017 – The Eighth Meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation (PSC) Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region was held in…

Special Envoy Said Djinnit (1st left) meets with members of the EU diplomatic corps in the Great Lakes region (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)
Nairobi, 9 October 2017 – Stability and security are coming slowly to the Great Lakes region, albeit with some major challenges still to overcome. It is in this context that Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the United Nations…

MONUSCO Photo/Tresor Pendeki
Nairobi, 11 September 2017 – Under the leadership of the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, representatives of the signatory countries of the Peace, Security and Cooperation (PSC) Framework…

UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit (left), with President Denins Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo. Brazzaville, 2 August 2017
Brazzaville (Rep. of Congo), 2 August 2017 – Said Djinnit, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region met with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital…

Participants at the workshop on early warning and conflict prevention in Central African states, Libreville, Gabon, 31 July 2017 (Photo: UNOCA Photo/Norbert Ouendji)
Libreville (Gabon), 1 August 2017 - Representatives of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and the Secretariat of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) met on 31 July and 1 August…

