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Participants at the security experts’ meeting on the implementation of the Action Plan of the Contact and Coordination Group. Goma, eastern DRC, 13 December 2021. UN Photo/Elisa Lux
Goma (eastern DRC), 17 December 2021 - Security experts from the Great Lakes region, namely from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda met this week in Goma, eastern DRC, to agree on the course of act
Participants at the launch of the Great Lakes Women Entrepreneurs’ Network. Seated in the front row, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and Richard Ngatia, President of the ICGLR Private Sector Forum. UN Photo/Penangnini Toure
Nairobi, 2 December 2021 - On 2 December 2021, the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, and the Private Sector Forum of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) l
The Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region would like to refer to the article published by Jeune Afrique on 18 October 2021 and titled “Great Lakes: Felix Tshisekedi under pressure from th
Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region. New York, 20 October 2021. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Kigali (Rwanda), 10 September 2021 - The Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation, better known as ‘FemWise-Africa’, has concluded a week-long training in Kigali, Rwa
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region and the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) co-organized, from 31 August to 2 September 2021, a high-level workshop on natur
High-level participants at the workshop on natural resources, Khartoum, The Sudan, 31 August 2021. Photo: Mahmoud Shamrouk/UNITAMS
Khartoum (The Sudan), 2 September 2021 - The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), in partnership with the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ), organized from 31 August to 2 Sep
Amb. Basile Ikouebe, AU Special representative for the Great Lakes region (left) and Amb. Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, at the 4th meeting of the Contact and Coordination Group, Bujumbura, Burundi, 6 July 2021
Bujumbura (Burundi), 6 July 2021 – Heads of intelligence and security services of the Great Lakes countries, including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania, met on 5-6 July in the Burundian capital to review and adopt an action plan of the Conta
Delegation from the Office of the Special Envoy and the ICGLR with Sudanese authorities during a working session to prepare the workshop on natural resources in Sudan.
Khartoum (Sudan), 3 July 2021 - A joint team of made of representatives from the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) travelled to Khartoum, Sudan, from 29 June to 3 July 2021 to discuss pre
Great Lakes Special Envoy Huang Xia (2nd from R) and Special Representative and Head of MONUSCO Bintou Keita (2nd from L) at the workshop on the UN Strategy for the Great Lakes region. (Photo: Ascain Zigbia Tayoro/MONUSCO)
Kinshasa, 10 June 2021 – On 9-10 June, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region organized a workshop in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to draw an action plan for the implementation of the UN Strategy for Peace Consolidation, Conflict Prevention