The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simão, hosted, on 12 September 2023 in Dakar, Senegal, the 38th meeting of Heads of United Nat
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For the Head of UNOCA, unconstitutional changes are a blatant violation of the values and legal instruments of sub-regional, regional and international organizations, including the United Nations. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe (archive)
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Peace is the main priority of the Gabonese notables and of the UN as well as of the representatives of the associations met by the Head of UNOCA. Photo UNOCA/Norbert N. Ouendji
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According to Abdou Abarry, the support of men and women who work in the media is critical to avoid "the episodes of violence which have marked elections in the past." Photo UNOCA/Samperode Mba Allogho
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The Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the ECCAS Commission (Mangaral Bante), the Ambassador of Sao Tome and Principe to Gabon, also President of the UNSAC Committee of Experts (Elisa Pereira Afonso De Barros) and the Director of the United Nations and Decentralized Cooperation at the Ministry of External Relations of Cameroon (Ebenezer Mouandjo Mouandjo) followed closely the reading of the conclusions of the Yaoundé Forum. Photo UNOCA/Samperode Mba Allogho
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The Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union (AU) and Head of UNOAU, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga (second row, 1st from left), stressed the importance of solidarity within the sub-region and with other regions of the continent "following the example of the Quadripartite on the crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo," which recently took place in Luanda. Photo: Presidency of the Republic of Gabon