Roselyn Akombe Returns To Kenya From Self Exile
By Soko Directory Team / Published February 17, 2021 | 8:50 am KEY POINTS
By Sally Lizwa
Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner Dr. Roselyn Akombe has come back to Kenya after going into self-exile at the height of the 2017 presidential elections claiming that her life was in danger.
Akombe took to Twitter to announce her arrival with Kenyans welcoming her but others calling her out for “being a coward” who ran away when the country needed her the most.
Nothing beats the feeling of being home #Kenya, where my umbilical cord remains. Thanks a million to all who made it possible. I owe you a lot! pic.twitter.com/J1JBcWpon6
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02/04/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/04/2021 16:27
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The unresolved question of Palestine underlines the continuing importance of the Palestinian Rights Committee, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said today, during that body s first formal meeting of 2021, warning that unliteral actions jeopardize the possibility of restarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The year 2021 presents tremendous tests and opportunities across the board, he told members of the entity, known formally as the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. It challenges us to reinvent how we make and sustain peace, while confronting the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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1. Madame President, members of the Executive Board, colleagues, and friends. It is my great pleasure to join you today for this first regular session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board for 2021.
2. Allow me to begin by congratulating Her Excellency Ms. Lachezara Stoeva, the Permanent Representative of Bulgaria, on her election as the President of the Board, and welcoming our new Bureau members for 2021.
3. I would like to express my gratitude to the outgoing Bureau members. In particular, I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to the outgoing President, His Excellency Mr. Walton Webson, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda, for his unwavering leadership and guidance.
Youth, Peace and Security - A Programming Handbook
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Youth, Peace and Security: A Programming Handbook, developed by the United Nations with the generous support of the Folke Bernadotte Academy – the Swedish Agency for Peace, Security and Development – seeks to contribute to the operational readiness and capacity of United Nations practitioners to implement the youth, peace and security (YPS) agenda.
For the United Nations, the development of the handbook was led by the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development Programme and the Peacebuilding Support Office in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, in consultation with a task force including various United Nations entities represented at global, regional and country levels, as well as Folke Bernadotte Academy partners.