UN Deputy Relief Chief Pays Visit to Eritrea

By Shabait, The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Kyung-wha Kang, conducted a two-day working visit to Eritrea. Arriving in the capital Asmara in the early morning hours of January 25, Ms. Kyun-wha met and held talks with various senior Eritrean government officials and U.N. Agencies. Discussions covered ways […]

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United Nations Delegation Wraps up High-level Visit to Eritrea

By UNDP, On 17 December, a U.N. delegation concluded its three-day visit to Eritrea, assessing the country’s development advances and reviewing, with government partners, national development priorities for the next three years. Headed by the Chair of the Regional United Nations Development Group (UNDG)  for Eastern and Southern Africa, Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, the delegation comprised […]

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Visiting High Level UN Mission Underlines Eritrea’s Success Story

By FikreJesus Amahazion, A UN delegation headed by Mr. Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, Assistant Secretary General and Regional Director of UNDP/RBA, and Chairman of UNDG-ESA Mission, recently visited Eritrea to monitor development work and engage in dialogue with development partners. One of his findings was that Eritrea is “making huge progress on [the UN] MDGs.”[1]

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