What's In Blue: Africa
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Tomorrow morning (27 March), the Security Council will hold a private meeting on the situation in Somalia. This meeting will be convened pursuant to resolution 2670 of 21 December 2022, which extended the operational timeline for the drawdown of the...
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Security Council Report (SCR) accompanied Council members on their visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which took place from 9 to 12 March and was co-led by France and Gabon. SCR covered the visiting mission in...
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Tomorrow morning (20 March), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS). Special Representative and head of UNITAMS Volker Perthes is expected to brief on...
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This afternoon (16 March), the Security Council is scheduled to adopt a presidential statement on Libya. In the statement, the Council says that it is encouraged by the initiative of Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and head of the...
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Tomorrow morning (15 March), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for one year. The US, the penholder on South Sudan, circulated an initial draft of the...
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Yesterday (12 March), on the last day of the Council’s four-day visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), members received first-hand accounts of the deleterious effects on civilians of the ongoing conflict in the country. They held...
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This morning (11 March), Council members left Kinshasa for Goma, the capital of North Kivu, the most conflict-affected province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They held meetings with provincial authorities, regional actors based in...
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Council members arrived yesterday evening (9 March) in Kinshasa for their visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Upon arrival at the airport, the Council delegation interacted briefly with members of the press, and the mission’s co-leads—Ambassador Nicolas...
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Security Council members leave this evening (8 March) for a visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). France and Gabon are co-leading the mission, which will take place from tomorrow (9 March) to Sunday (12 March). The...
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Today (8 March), following the meeting on Afghanistan, the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the 1591 Sudan Sanctions Committee until 12 March 2024. The vote was...
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Tomorrow morning (6 March), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and head of UNMISS Nicholas Haysom will brief on the Secretary-General’s latest 90-day report,...
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On Monday morning (27 February), the Security Council is scheduled to hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the situation in Libya. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)...
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Tomorrow morning (22 February), the Security Council is scheduled to hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the situation in Somalia. Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)...
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Tomorrow morning (21 February), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR). The expected briefers are Special Representative for the CAR and head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization...
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Today (7 February), after the meeting on the Syria chemical weapons track, Security Council members are expected to hold a meeting on Mali under “any other business”. Albania, Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the UK, and the US requested the...
