Africa

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks to the high-level meeting on the Central African Republic, in New York today:

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, jointly with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, will donate a small arms and light weapons marking machine to both Burkina Faso and Niger to fight small arms proliferation.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level meeting on Hope for South Sudan, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks to the high-level event on Libya, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma announced today the appointment of Abdul Kamara of Sierra Leone as Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks at the high-level meeting on Somalia held in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery to the fourth meeting of the regional oversight mechanism (13+4) of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region today in New York:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the General Assembly high-level side event on Harnessing the Demographic Dividend in Sub-Saharan Africa, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the African Leaders Meeting — “Moving against the Tide: Africa Rising to Seize Climate Change Opportunities towards Water, Food and Energy Security”, in New York today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon: