UN Documents for UNOWAS (West Africa and the Sahel): Security Council Meeting Records

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11 January 2024 S/PV.9529 This was a briefing on UNOWAS with Special Representative Leonardo Santos Simão, and Regional Director of the Office for West Africa, the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin of the Institute for Security Studies, Lori-Anne Theroux-Benoni.
25 July 2023 S/PV.9384 This was a briefing on West Africa and the Sahel.
21 June 2023 S/PV.9355 This was a briefing on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea to mark the tenth anniversary of the “Yaoundé Code of Conduct”.
10 January 2023 S/PV.9238 This was a briefing on West Africa and the Sahel with Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel and Officer-in-Charge of the UN Office of West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Giovanie Biha, and the President of the ECOWASCommission, Omar Alieu Touray.
22 November 2022 S/PV.9198 This was a briefing on Gulf of Guinea piracy.
7 July 2022 S/PV.9086 This was a briefing on UNOWAS with SRSG Mahamat Saleh Annadif, PBC Chair Ambassador Rabab Fatima, and civil society representative Rabia Djibo Magagi, Coordinator of the Association Alliance for Peace and Security.
10 January 2022 S/PV.8944 This was a briefing on West Africa and the Sahel and the activities of UNOWAS.
8 July 2021 S/PV.8814 This was a briefing on West Africa and the Sahel.
11 February 2020 S/PV.8720 The Council adopted a presidential statement on West Africa and the Sahel, which called on national stakeholders in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Mali and Togo to work together to facilitate the timely preparation for, and holding of, genuinely free and fair, credible, timely and peaceful elections that are scheduled during 2020.
8 January 2020 S/PV.8698 This was a briefing on West Africa and the Sahel with Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative and head of UNOWAS.
16 December 2019 S/PV.8685 This was a briefing on intercommunal violence and terrorism in West Africa.
24 July 2019 S/PV.8585 The Council held its semi-annual briefing on West Africa and the Sahel.
5 February 2019 S/PV.8457 This was a Council debate on transnational organised crime at sea.
4 February 2019 S/PV.8456 This was a Council high-level debate on “Mercenary activities as a source of insecurity and destabilization in Africa”.
10 January 2019 S/PV.8442 This was a briefing by Special Representative Mohamed Ibn Chambas on the Secretary-General’s latest report on developments in West Africa and the Sahel and the activities of UNOWAS.