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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)…

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…

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…

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…

Nairobi (Kenya), 11 August 2017 – Kenyans went to the polls on 7 August to elect their president in the country’s general elections. In order to encourage an all-peaceful process, the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON)…

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…

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…

Nairobi, 13 July 2017 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Said Djinnit, convened a coordination meeting with UN Resident Coordinators from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

Nairobi, 5 July 2017 – Experts from Africa’s Great Lakes region arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, for consultations on how to tackle illegal trade of natural resources in the region. The main focus of the two-day meeting, which ends…

12 April 2017 – The United Nations envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region encouraged today the countries of the region, and the UN Security Council, to help strengthen the fight against illegal armed groups in the Democratic…

Goma (eastern DRC), 10 April 2017 – The 10 th Multifunctional Youth Forum of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) took place on the shores of Lake Kivu in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the…

Libreville (Gabon), 23 March 2017 - The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region is participating in the meeting of the Heads of United Nations Presences in Central Africa taking place in…