Press Releases

  • Security Council authorizes further downsizing of UN peacekeeping force in Liberia
    03 Apr 2015 - 2 April 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today adopted a resolution authorizing the third phase of a drawdown of the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia to 3,590 military personnel and 1,515 police personnel, and deciding that the Mission’s mandate would no longer...
  • UNMIL welcomes newly appointed Force Commander
    20 Feb 2015 - Monrovia, 20 February 2015 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of UN Operations in Liberia, Karin Landgren, has welcomed the newly appointed Force Commander, Maj.-Gen. Salihu Zaway Uba of Nigeria, to UNMIL. Maj.-Gen. Uba succeeds Maj.-Gen....
  • SRSG statement following a fourth Ebola case within UNMIL
    24 Dec 2014 - Monrovia, 24 December 2014   Special Representative of the Secretary-General Karin Landgren made the following statement today: On Tuesday, 23 December, an UNMIL staff member tested positive for the Ebola Virus Disease and was immediately transferred to an Ebola Treatment Unit...
  • SRSG statement on the Evacuation of the Ebola Patient in UNMIL
    08 Dec 2014 - Monrovia, 6 December 2014 Special Representative of the Secretary-General Karin Landgren made the following statement today: The member of UNMIL military personnel who tested positive for the Ebola Virus Disease on    3 December has been...
  • SRSG statement on confirmed case of Ebola in UNMIL
    04 Dec 2014 -   Monrovia, 4 December 2014 Special Representative of the Secretary-General Karin Landgren made the following statement today: A member of UNMIL military personnel tested positive for the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on 3 December. The patient is receiving treatment at an Ebola...
  • SRSG statement following the death of an UNMIL international civilian infected with Ebola
    14 Oct 2014 - Monrovia, 14 October 2014   Special Representative of the Secretary-General Karin Landgren made the following statement today:   A United Nations Volunteer, who worked in UNMIL Medical, has passed away in hospital, after testing positive for the Ebola Virus Disease [EVD] on 6...
  • Note to the media
    10 Oct 2014 - 10 October 2014 - This is to clarify the facts regarding measures UNMIL has undertaken to ensure no further transmission of EVD after one of its medical personnel recently contracted the disease. Following the discovery on 5 October that an UNMIL Medical staff member was...
  • SRSG Karin Landgren Statement on the Suspension of the 14 October Liberian Senatorial Elections
    10 Oct 2014 - Monrovia, 09 October 2014 - The proclamation yesterday by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf suspending the holding of the 14 October 2014 Senatorial Elections gives Liberians clarity on this matter. The proclamation is in line with National Elections Commission (NEC)...
  • Citing Ebola Outbreak’s Profound Toll on Liberia, SRSG Tells Security Council Plague Must be Stopped
    10 Sep 2014 - The severity of the Ebola outbreak presented Liberia with its gravest threat since the civil war, and the United Nations Mission there had to reorient its activities and its planning to help stem it, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told the Security Council this...
  • Special Representative briefs Security Council on Liberia’s Ebola crisis
    10 Sep 2014 - Monrovia/New York, 09 September 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Liberia, Karin Landgren, devoted her regular briefing to the Security Council today to the rapidly evolving developments related to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in...

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