Guinea-Bissau
Most read reports
- UN SC: Briefing Security Council, Senior Officials Urge Increased International Support as Guinea-Bissau Prepares for November Presidential Election. 10 Sep 2019
- UN SC: Report of the Secretary-General on Progress made with regard to the stabilization and restoration of constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau (S/2019/696). 4 Sep 2019
- UN SC: Report of the Secretary-General on Developments in Guinea-Bissau and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (S/2019/664). 27 Aug 2019
- UN SC: Conseil de sécurité: optimisme prudent à deux mois de l’élection présidentielle en Guinée-Bissau. 11 Sep 2019
- UN SC: Security Council Extends Mandate of Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2458 (2019). 28 Feb 2019
Several consecutive weeks of heavy rainfall have caused flooding across West and East Africa
Africa Weather Hazards
A poor start to seasonal rainfall has caused abnormal dryness in parts of Mauritania.
Heavy rainfall over the past several weeks has triggered flooding in Senegal, Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, and Mali. Heavy rainfall is expected to continue.
INTRODUCTION: L’OIM travaille avec les autorités nationales, locales et des partenaires locaux, afin de mieux comprendre les mouvements migratoires à travers l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre. Le suivi des flux de population (FMP) est une activité qui permet de quantifier les flux, les tendances et les routes migratoires et de recueillir des informations qualitatives sur les profils, pays d’origine et de destination, et modes de transports des voyageurs transitant par un point d’entrée, de transit ou de sortie donné.
Six mois après le succès des élections législatives en Guinée-Bissau, la Sous-Secrétaire générale des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique a prévenu les membres du Conseil de sécurité que l’organisation du futur scrutin présidentiel à l’automne demeure « semée d’embûches ». La réunion a tout de même été dominée par une atmosphère d’optimisme prudent.
SC/13946
Security Council
8614th Meeting (PM)
Permanent Representative Highlights Appointment of 11 Women Ministers after Legislative Polls, Cocaine Seizure from Traffickers
As Guinea-Bissau prepares for presidential elections in November, the international community must increase support for that country’s Government as it faces a multitude of challenges along the road to stability, senior United Nations officials told the Security Council today.
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Compte tenu des estimations très divergentes des populations migrantes et réfugiées vivant à Nouadhibou et de la difficulté à les atteindre car elles sont en mouvement et font le choix de la discrétion, le HCR, l’Agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés en Mauritanie a utilisé la méthode de “l’échantillonnage piloté par le répondant” (Respondent Driven Sampling, RDS) pour mieux estimer cette population à Nouadhibou. RDS s’appuie sur le recrutement des répondants par leurs propres pairs.
Summary of Findings
Considering the widely divergent estimations and the hard-to-reach nature of migrant and refugee populations on the move who choose to stay apart and be discreet, the UN refugee agency in Mauritania, UNHCR, used Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) in Nouadhibou to more accurately estimate this population. RDS relies on peers recruiting their peers.
Persisting heavy rainfall triggers flooding across parts of West and East Africa
A poor start to the rainfall season across Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mauritania has caused significant dryness.
Persisting heavy rainfall following abnormally wet conditions in July has caused flash flooding in Sierra Leone.
The Security Council will convene two ministerial meetings in September, the first on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations and the second on peace and security in Africa, Vassily A. Nebenzia (Russian Federation), its President for September, said today.
Speaking at a Headquarters press conference, he said those signature events will be held during the high-level week of the General Assembly and presided over by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Global Overview
INTRODUCTION:
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Le Réseau de systèmes d’alerte précoce contre la famine (FEWS NET) surveille les tendances des prix des aliments de base dans les pays vulnérables à l'insécurité alimentaire. Pour chaque pays et chaque région couvert par FEWS NET, le Bulletin des prix fournit un ensemble de graphiques indiquant les prix mensuels de l’année commerciale en cours pour certains centres urbains, et permettant à l’utilisateur de comparer les tendances actuelles à la fois aux moyennes quinquennales, qui indiquent les tendances saisonnières, et aux prix de l'année précédente.
Overview
The 2019 Cluster Munition Monitor, released on August 29, 2019, takes a serious look at the situation in Syria, where attacks involving cluster munitions continued to occur in 2018. The annual report counted at least 674 cluster munition attacks in Syria since mid-2012. As many as 40% of these weapons do not explode on impact, so these attacks have caused heavy contamination by cluster munition remnants, which themselves pose a deadly and long-term threat for the local population.
