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Left-Right: Nene Bah, Senior Gender Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; Hon. Janviere Ndirahisha, Regional Director for the ICGLR regional training facility in Uganda; Amb. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the ICGLR; and Faridah Kibowa, Chair of Uganda National Women Council. Kampala, Uganda, 27 Nov. 2023 (Photo: Fiona Irakoze, ICGLR).
Kampala (Uganda), 27 November 2023 - The Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, in collaboration with the Regional Training Facility of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), hosted an event…
Left to right: Bruno Lemarquis, (left) Deputy Special Representative to the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Yacoub El Hillo, (2nd left), Regional Director for the Development Coordination Office for Africa, Susan Ngongi Namondo, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda, Bagiire Vincent Waiswa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region (2nd right), and Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, (right), Special Representative of Secretary-General to the AU and Head of the UN Office to the AU (UNOAU), during the second SPG Retreat held in Kampala, Uganda. Photo (William Sila, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region).
Kampala (Uganda), 12 December 2023 – The Senior Policy Group (SPG) of United Nations presences in the Great Lakes region met in Kampala, Uganda, on 11-12 December 2023 to review progress in the implementation of the Regional…
High profile participants at the retreat on the revitalization of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region. Durban, South Africa, 31 October 2023 (Photo: Penangnini Toure)
The Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region in collaboration with the African Union (AU) organized a regional retreat to assess the impact of the Peace, Security and Cooperation (PSC) Framework for the…
Special Envoy Huang Xia briefing the Security Council on the situation in Africa’s Great Lakes region. New York, 17 October 2023 (Photo: Manuel Elías)
Source: UN News New York, 17 October 2023 - The UN Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, appealed to the international community on Tuesday for increased support in resolving the escalating hostilities in eastern…
Participants during the "Strategic Minerals' Meeting" held in Lusaka Zambia, 8-10 August. Photo, Liz Guantai, OSESG-GL
The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region convened a workshop on strategic minerals in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, on 8-10 August 2023. Organized in partnership with the International…
Participants of the 7th Statutory meeting of the Forum of Parliaments of ICGLR member states’ Committee on Economic Development, Regional Integration and Natural Resources, pose for a photo after the official opening of the meeting. Photo © Office of the Deputy Speaker, Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.
The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region was invited to brief on the promotion of women and youth in sustainable management of natural resources in the region during the seventh statutory…
Participants at the High-table of the RCNR meeting: Ambassador João Samuel CAHOLO ICGLR Executive Secretary (l) with other panelists during the meeting on the fight against the illegal exploitation of natural resources, held on 25 - 27 in Luanda, Angola
The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region attended the 26 th meeting of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) regional committee on the fight against the…
Participants at the meeting of Political Affairs Officers and Peace and Development Advisors of UN presences in the Great Lakes region. From left Ms. Fatou Thiam, Director of the Political Affairs unit in the Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, and Mr. François Grignon, Director of MONUSCO Political Affairs Division. Photo: Penangnini Toure
Nairobi, 12 July 2023 - From 5 to 6 July 2023, the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region organized a two-day meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together United Nations (UN) actors…
Participants pose for a group photo following the official opening of the regional workshop on promoting women and youth participation in the mining sector in the Great Lakes region. (Photo: Michael Wangusa, UNRCO Uganda).
Kampala, Uganda, 9 June 2023 – The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region in collaboration with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), and with the financial…
UN OSESG-GL / Penangnini Toure: Secretary-General António Guterres addressing the 11th high-level meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region.
Heads of State and Government from the Great Lakes Africa region, the African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, and representatives from the United Nations led by Secretary-General António Guterres, gathered…
Heads of State and Government from the signatory countries of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region will meet in Bujumbura, Burundi, on 6 May 2023 for the…
Special Envoy Huang Xia took part, along with hundreds of stakeholders and development partners engaged in the fight against the illicit exploitation and trade of natural resources in the Great Lakes region, in the 2023 Forum…