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No incident was reported and generally speaking the polls were peaceful with organizers, voters, civil society and international community hoping that they will definitively end the four-year political instability in the country.
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761,676 bissau-Guineans were expected to vote yesterday for legislative elections.
Security Council yesterday took resolution 2458 extending the mandate of UNIOGBIS for one year until 28 February 2020.
After Côte d’Ivoire, the Security Council ended its 24-hour visit to Guinea-Bissau today after a last meeting with the President of the Republic, Jose Mario Vaz.
The Media Innovation Consortium of Guinea-Bissau (CMICS) was presented to the public today at a press conference in Bissau. To mark the occasion, it launched a grant competition for investigative journalism.
The Security Council issued a press statement today following the briefing on 21 December, on the special report of the Secretary-General on the assessment of UNIOGBIS and the latest political developments in Guinea-Bissau.
The UN Security Council today will discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau and a Special report of the Secretary-General on the strategic assessment of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau which recommends the exit of the Office by the end of 2020.
The government of Guinea-Bissau and UNIOGBIS held a high-level conference on the theme "National Dialogue on Combating Transnational Organized Crime" from 28-29 November in Bissau.
The workshop on the Mid-Term Review of the Strategic Partnership Framework between the United Nations and the Government of Guinea-Bissau (UNPAF) for the period 2016-2018 was on 8 November in Bissau.
The United Nations system in Guinea-Bissau marked the 73rd anniversary of the creation of the world organization with a two-day forum under the theme "A shared vision for the sustainable development of Guinea-Bissau-United Nations Partnership Agreement Framework (UNPAF)".
World Food Day was observed on October 16 under the motto: "Our Actions are Our Future. A ZERO Hunger World by 2030 is possible. "