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Amb. Basile Ikouebe, AU Special representative for the Great Lakes region (left) and Amb. Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, at the 4th meeting of the Contact and Coordination Group, Bujumbura, Burundi, 6 July 2021
Bujumbura (Burundi), 6 July 2021 – Heads of intelligence and security services of the Great Lakes countries, including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania, met on 5-6 July in the…
Delegation from the Office of the Special Envoy and the ICGLR with Sudanese authorities during a working session to prepare the workshop on natural resources in Sudan.
Khartoum (Sudan), 3 July 2021 - A joint team of made of representatives from the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)…
Great Lakes Special Envoy Huang Xia (2nd from R) and Special Representative and Head of MONUSCO Bintou Keita (2nd from L) at the workshop on the UN Strategy for the Great Lakes region. (Photo: Ascain Zigbia Tayoro/MONUSCO)
Kinshasa, 10 June 2021 – On 9-10 June, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region organized a workshop in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to draw an action plan for the…
Bujumbura, 31 May 2021 – The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, presided over the ceremony that saw the official closing of the Office of the Special Envoy for Burundi…
UN Special Envoy Huang Xia (2nd from left) meets with President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania (right).
Nairobi, 5 May 2021 - Huang Xia, United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, met with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Nairobi, Kenya, on her first official visit to the country. During the meeting…
Source: UN News Governments and people across the 13 nations continue to show resilience and determination in the face of the global crisis, Special Envoy Huang Xia said, while congratulating those who have begun vaccinations…
The Guarantors of the Framework agreement meeting virtually from Nairobi (Kenya), Bujumbura (Burundi) and Gaborone (Botswana)
Nairobi (Kenya), 3 March 2021 – The Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marked its eighth anniversary on 24…
Nairobi, 14 January 2021 – As the United Nations marked its 75th anniversary last year (2020), a new United Nations Strategy for Peace Consolidation, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution in the Great Lakes region was…
Nairobi, 24 October 2020 – I join my voice to the global campaign celebrating the 75 th Anniversary of the United Nations (#UN75). Since the signing of the groundbreaking and visionary United Nations Charter in 1945, the…
On 22 October 2020, Secretary-General António Guterres approved the United Nations (UN) Strategy for Peace Consolidation, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution in the Great Lakes region. The Strategy, developed by the…
UN Special Envoy Huang Xia (screen photo) briefing the Security Council on 13 October 2020.
Nairobi, 13 October 2020 – The United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, today briefed the Security Council on recent developments in the region. The Special Envoy emphasized the region's leaders…
Special Envoy Huang Xia (L) with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo.
8 October 2020 - The UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, undertook from 28 September to 8 October a series of missions in the region and met with several officials, including Presidents João Lourenço of…