Antonio Guterres
13 Jun 2023
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for maintaining but streamlining a peacekeeping mission in troubled Mali, whose military leaders have clashed with the West and turned to Russia.
13 Jun 2023
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has warned that the proliferation of hate speeches and lies in the digital space, saying the world must address the present grave global harm caused by online mis- and disinformation
9 Jun 2023
The Sudanese government has declared United Nations envoy Volker Perthes "persona non grata", two weeks after the army chief accused him of stoking the country's civil conflict and sought to have him removed from his post.
27 May 2023
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was "shocked" by a letter from Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reportedly requesting the replacement of special envoy Volker Perthes amid a brutal war with paramilitaries.
24 May 2023
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on nations to immediately ramp up funding to prevent a "catastrophe" in the Horn of Africa, which is suffering its worst drought in generations.
6 May 2023
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged African leaders to redouble efforts to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violent armed groups have terrorised civilians for decades.
2 May 2023
UN chief Antonio Guterres held a second day of talks with world powers Tuesday on how to deal with Afghanistan's Taliban leaders amid warnings from the Kabul administration the meeting could be "counter-productive".
30 Apr 2023
UN chief Antonio Guterres will gather international envoys at a secret location in Doha on Monday in an increasingly desperate bid to find ways to influence Afghanistan's Taliban rulers.
26 Apr 2023
The United Nations, in a new report, has called for sustainable industrial transformation to close the widening development gap between countries, meet climate targets and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
24 Apr 2023
The UN secretary-general warned Monday that the violence between warring parties in Sudan "could engulf the whole region and beyond." Antonio Guterres told a meeting of the UN Security Council on multilateralism that the situation in Sudan "continues to worsen." At least 427 people have been killed and almost 4,000 wounded in ten days of…