December 19, 2020
A 14 year-old former child soldier draws at a school in Ndenga village, Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic. Courtesy file photo
NEW YORK United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday welcomed the release of more than 300 schoolboys forcibly taken from their school in northwest Nigeria a week ago, although others reportedly remain missing.
After the release of the boys kidnapped by armed men from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, on Dec. 11, Guterres called for the “immediate and unconditional release of those who remain abducted”.
In a statement issued by his Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, Guterres commended “the swift action taken by the Nigerian authorities to rescue the children” while also stressing the importance that those children and their families are now “provided with the necessary health and psychosocial support”.
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By Sami Zaptia.
London, 17 December 2020:
The UN Security Council approved on 15 December the proposal from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to appoint Bulgarian Nickolay Mladenov, currently UN Middle East envoy, as the new special envoy to Libya.
He was first revealed in September, but disagreement between Security Council members has delayed his approval.
Technically, he succeeds Ghassan Salamé who resigned in March but in reality he will replace Acting special envoy Stephanie Williams. It is not known, though, when Mladenov will take up the post. Williams confirmed this week that she will still be in post by the first week of January.