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UNMIL/PR/3003-18 Download PDF UNMIL completes its mandate in a now peaceful Liberia Monrovia, 30 March 2018 - Established in October 2003, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1509(2003) upon the…

Alan Doss attending a ceremony to open a new police station in Paynesville, supported by an UNMIL quick-impact project. Photo: Eric Kanalstein | UNMIL | 11 Aug 06 The second Special Representative of the Secretary-General to…

SRSG Klein with members of the local community during a field visit. Photo: Eric Kanalstein | UNMIL | 28 Jan 05 Jacques Paul Klein arrived in Monrovia in October 2003 as the Mission’s first Special Representative of the…

President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Mr. George Manneh Weah | Photo: Albert G. Farran | UNMIL | 5 Feb 18 My fellow citizens, I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other…

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (2016-) Photo: Mark Garten | UNMIL | 19 Dec 16 The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) deployed in October 2003 to a country which, after 14 years of brutal…

The flags of the United Nations and Liberia fly side by side at the UNMIL Headquarters in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 13 May 11 This book is dedicated, first and foremost, to the people of Liberia, whose…

After nearly six years as the United Nations political chief, Jeffrey Feltman on Thursday spoke to the press for the last time as the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, spotlighting the importance of…

Walungu, March 23, 2018 – Walungu is a locality situated tens of kilometres from the town of Bukavu in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The main activity of the population in this…

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia will formally cease operations on Friday after aiding the West African nation’s transition from ravaging civil war to a hopeful era of peace.

Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. On 26 and 27 March 2018, some 100 women from Darfur’s five states, representing the state government, parliamentarians, localities, civil society organizations and internally displaced persons…

As the United Nations continues to send peacekeepers to difficult or war-torn environments like Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, those ‘blue helmets’ will need more and better coordinated support among the…

UNMISS chief rides with boda boda motorcyclists in campaign for peace and safety The streets of Juba were today lit up in midday excitement, as David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of United…