On 2 June, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict was briefed via video-teleconference by the Co-Chairs of the South Sudan Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting on the situation of children and armed conflict in South Sudan, in particular since the onset of the conflict on 15 December 2013.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, to the second Consultative Meeting on the Development of the Sahel Region, in Abuja today: