UNOWA (West Africa): Mobilizing regional efforts to address crises in West Africa

The United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) was the first regional conflict prevention and peacebuilding office of the United Nations, established in 2002, mandated to address crossborder conflict in the region and help build peace and security. Based in Dakar, UNOWA covers the 15 countries that make up the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo as well as Mauritania. Its mandate was extended by the Security Council in December 2010 (S/2010/661), for an additional three years until December 2013.

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