Photo: UNIFIL peacekeepers do Blue Line marking.
30 August 2016
The United Nations Security Council today unanimously extended the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), until the end of August 2017.
Politics
Photo:A view of the Ivindo River flowing through Ivindo National Park in east-central Gabon.
Photo:Young Syrian refugees study a map of the United States at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Amman, Jordan, office.
Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar, in Nay Pyi Taw.
30 August 2016
Photo: On 8 August 2016 in Yemen, an internally displaced woman sits with her daughter in front of her makeshift shelter in the Tharawan IDP camp on the outskirts of Sana’a. By 11 August 2016, over 2.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) had fled their homes due to ongoing conflict.
29 August 2016
While congratulating the people and Government of Gabon for the holding of a peaceful and orderly presidential election on Saturday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today also urged all Gabonese to accept the poll results.
Photo: Licorne nuclear test, 1971, French Polynesia.
Photo:A Military Liaison Officer of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), looks through binoculars during a ceasefire monitoring patrol in Oum Dreyga, Western Sahara
