What's In Blue: Africa
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On Tuesday (26 May), the Council is expected to adopt a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) until 7 August. The current mandate of UNSOM expires on 28 May. While the two previous UNSOM...
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Tomorrow (19 May), the Council will be briefed via video teleconference from Addis Ababa by Nicholas Kay, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), regarding the latest 120-day report of the Secretary-General....
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Tomorrow (14 May), the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, Said Djinnit, will brief the Security Council in consultations from Dar es Salaam via video teleconference on the latest developments in Burundi at the request of France. Council members...
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Tomorrow afternoon (14 May), the Council is scheduled to have a briefing followed by consultations on the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the work of the 2206 Sanctions Committee on South Sudan. Special Representative Ellen Margrethe Løj is...
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This afternoon (12 May), Council members are expected to hold consultations on options for criminal accountability and transitional justice in South Sudan at the request of the US. Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel Miguel de Serpa Soares...
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On Monday (11 May) the Council will receive a briefing by Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on the EU response to the smuggling of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. After the briefing, Council...
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On Monday afternoon (11 May), Council members, at the request of Chile, are scheduled to hold an informal interactive dialogue with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda. Although scheduled to provide the semi-annual briefing on the work of...
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Tomorrow morning (5 May) Council members are scheduled to hold consultations on the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet is expected to brief on the situation in Abyei and the Secretary-General’s most...
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Tomorrow morning (29 April), Bernardino León, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), is scheduled to brief the Council in consultations. The briefing, requested by Jordan, this month’s Council president, is...
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Tomorrow morning (28 April), the Security Council will vote on a resolution extending the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for another year. The draft resolution, which was put in blue earlier today, contains...
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Tomorrow (28 April), the Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution, renewing the mandate of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) until 30 April 2016. The draft resolution renews the mission’s mandate at its...
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Tomorrow (22 April), the Council is scheduled to receive a briefing from Ambassador Cristian Barros (Chile), chair of the 1572 Côte d’Ivoire Sanctions Committee. He is expected to convey the findings of the final report of the Group of Experts,...
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Tomorrow afternoon (16 April), Council members will be briefed in consultations by Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on recent developments in Burundi. The US requested the briefing from the Secretariat on Monday, in the context of the upcoming...
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Tomorrow (9 April), the Security Council will be briefed by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous on the situation in Mali, followed by consultations. Council members are likely to take the opportunity to discuss the 27 March Secretary-General’s report on...
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Tomorrow (2 April), the Security Council is expected to adopt a resolution authorising a resumption of the drawdown for the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which had been suspended since September 2014 due to the Ebola outbreak. The US circulated...