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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) with with Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, at the ceremony marking the closure of the UN Integrated Peace Building Mission in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL), and the transfer of its responsibilities to the UN country team.
After more than 15 years of successive peace operations, the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, the last United Nations Mission in the country, is closing at the end of March 2014.
On top of that, Sierra Leone – once home to the largest peacekeeping force in the history of the United Nations – now even sends its own soldiers as UN peacekeepers to trouble spots around the world.
UNIPSIL completes its Security Council mandate on 31 March 2014 and transfers its responsibility to the UN Country Team, which consists of 19 agencies, funds and programmes, based on the UN Development Assistance Framework.
With more than 15 years of United Nations peace operations in Sierra Leone set to wrap up at the end of this month, the top UN official there said today that it will still require sustained international attention and support…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) addresses a joint press conference with President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
The United Nations today launched a new phase of support in Sierra Leone with the transitioning of its political mission to a more development-focused UN presence, a sign of the West African nation’s sustained recovery from a…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led the United Nations today in honouring those who lost their lives over the past year serving under the blue flag, while also raising awareness about new developments in the field of…
Because of the multiple constitutional, traditional and religious barriers that female political aspirants and candidates encounter when running for public offices in Sierra Leone, the women parliamentarians have called for a…
As the women of Sierra Leone stood side by side in solidarity towards achieving gender equality and women's empowerment, H. E. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was standing right beside them, encouraging them to press on, saying "I will…
Wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, leading lawyer and committed campaigner for women's rights, Madam Cherie Blair has advised the Government of Sierra Leone to speedily take heed of the women's call for the…
The Executive Representative of the secretary General invited Artists for Peace to congratulate them for the role they played in ensuring peaceful and non-violent elections in November 2012 through music, dance and comedy.
Hon. Moijue Kaikai, Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs in Sierra Leone.
UN Women
"We will always remember the telephone number 711..." says Moijue KaiKai, Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs in Sierra Leone of Women's Situation Room.
The Executive Representative of the Secretary General congratulates the Civil Society Platform in Sierra Leone on their role in ensuring peaceful and non-violent elections, before during and after 2012, elections which also…