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Medal awarding ceremony: these police women made the choice to serve under the United Nations Flag to contribute to establishing a lasting peace in Côte d’Ivoire (Abidjan, April 2018)

Exchanges between an UNOCI delegation and a group of local women during the United Nations Days in Bocanda (February 2010)

Children of the village of Diahouin, near Blolequin want peace. They made it clear to a visiting UN delegation following the post-electoral crisis (Diahouin, June 2011)

Some 242 detainees of the post-electoral crisis, incarcerated at MACA prison in Abidjan received food and non-food assistance from a delegation of the United Nations System led by the Special Representative (Abidjan, June…

Resolution 2284 unanimously adopted on 28 April 2016 by the Security Council of the United Nations decided that the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) will end on 30 June 2017. The reduction…

Students of the University Pelefero Gon Coulibaly were equipped by UNOCI with adequate tools to promote peace and nonviolence in higher learning institutions (Korhogo, June 2016)

13 June 2016 Every year on the International Day of Peace, the United Nations calls on the peoples of the world to remember their common humanity and join together to build a future free of strife. It calls on all of us to…

Community leaders in Danane signing recommendations at the end of an UNOCI-sponsored workshop on the prevention of rural land ownership conflicts (Danane, June 2016)

UN Days in Vavoua: Under pouring rain, the Special Representative proceeded to inaugurate the food market built by UNOCI for the women of the city (Vavoua, May 2016)

31 May 2016 Cigarettes and other tobacco products kill almost 6 million people every year. Sustainable Development Goal 3 aims to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. As part of that approach…

The Special representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Côte d’Ivoire, Aïchatou Mindaoudou, on 27 May 2016, presided over the ceremony of decoration of 368 peacekeepers of the Benin Contingent (BENINBATT…

UNOCI Force Commander, General Didier L'Hôte decorates a female peacekeeper from the Benin Contingent with the UN Medal for good and loyal service to the United Nations Mission in Cote d'Ivoire (Abidjan, May 2016)