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Somalia is ranked as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman according to Ilwad Mahamuud Ali from Elman Peace and Human Rights Center. "Women are extremely marginalised and neglected and they are not part…
With or without a functioning state, as a passionate and committed human rights activist and recently appointed the Co-Chair of the Technical Selection Committee (TSC), Halima has been working for the poor, human rights and…
Special Representative Augustine Mahiga on a courtesy visit to the newly elected President of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Special Representative Augustine Mahiga met with both President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed and Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali.
Special Representative Augustine P. Mahiga today formally re-opened the UNPOS office in the Somali capital.
Somalia remains fragmented and divided, much of it occupied by hardline extremists who in 2011 would have probably taken all of Mogadishu if it were not for the African Union Peacekeepers protecting the still fragile…
At a press conference in Nairobi, Special Representative Augustine P. Mahiga briefed on the continuing progress of the implementation of the Roadmap, the Kenyan military operation in Somalia, the security situation in…
The Joint Security Committee (JSC) was held in Mogadishu for the first time since it was established as part of the Djibouti Agrrement in August 2008.
Owing in part to a $10 million package provided by the Government of Japan, UNPOS in partnership with UNDP and AMISOM, succeeded in implementing a payment exercise to disperse monthly stipends to the Somali Police Force.
Special Representative Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah along with representatives of the Islamic Development Bank and Turkey co-chaired the first meeting to discuss the implementation of the recommendations made at the conference.
Following the closing of the Istanbul Conference on Somalia, the UN Special Representative, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, today said that the three-day meeting was "a major success" which resulted in "important concrete proposals".
On the eve of the Arab League Summit in Libya, the United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, today said that he was pleased with the momentum of the events taking place related to advancing the…