{"id":8277,"date":"2013-06-05T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-opens-new-mission-in-somalia-with-new-mandate\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:44:05","slug":"un-opens-new-mission-in-somalia-with-new-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-opens-new-mission-in-somalia-with-new-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Opens new Mission in Somalia With New Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2872 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/popo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on Monday, Nicholas Kay (centre), the new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) and head of the new UN political mission for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) (right) , speak to the media during a joint press briefing with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon (left) at the mission\u2019s headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu. PHOTO | AFP} <\/p>\n<p>{{The United Nations has opened a new Somalia office to replace the previous UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS).}}<\/p>\n<p>The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) was launched on Sunday after the arrival of UN envoy Nicholas Kay in the Somali capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>The new UN Somalia office comes with a new mandate \u201cto support state building and peace building.\u201d Kay, the new special representative of the UN Secretary-General in the country, said upon his arrival in Mogadishu he was pleased to work with the people and government of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to be in Mogadishu and to have this opportunity to support the Federal Government and people of Somalia to bring peace, security and prosperity back to Somalia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon welcomed the launch of the UN office as a \u201cvote of confidence in the new Somalia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have shown the world that to engage with Somalia it is possible &#8211; and indeed necessary &#8211; to come to Somalia,\u201d the Somali prime minister told the UN envoy.<\/p>\n<p>Special African Union representative for Somalia Mahamat Saleh Annadif also gave his welcoming remarks: \u201cI wish to affirm my support, as head of Amisom, to the UN Assistance Mission to ensure that the people of Somalia realise their dream of a peaceful and stable country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kay, a British national, will take over from the Tanzanian, Augustine Mahiga, who headed the UNPOS.<\/p>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on Monday, Nicholas Kay (centre), the new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) and head of the new UN political mission for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) (right) , speak to the media during a joint press briefing with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}