Central African region - Security Council, 10167th meeting

Central Africa’s important governance milestones unfolding against troubling backdrop, top political, peacebuilding official tells Security Council.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 01:13:49
• Production Date: 9 June 2026
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: MARTHA AMA AKYAA POBEE
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL OFFICE FOR CENTRAL AFRICA - UNOCA; BOKO HARAM; DEPARTMENT OF PEACE OPERATIONS - DPO; DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND PEACEBUILDING AFFAIRS - DPPA
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNANCE; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; TERRORISM; COUNTER-TERRORISM; PEACEBUILDING; DISPLACED PERSONS; REGIONAL COOPERATION; CONFLICT
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION
• MAMS Id: 3585387
• Parent Id: 3584419
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10167 CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION 09 JUN 2026 AM

Description

While Central African countries have achieved several important governance milestones, those strides have unfolded against a “troubling backdrop” marked by relentless terrorist attacks, mass population displacement and increasing restrictions on civil and political rights, a senior political and peacebuilding official warned the Security Council today.

“Two fulcrums of instability stand out in Central Africa — eastern Chad and the Lake Chad region,” said Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations.

Briefing the 15-member Council on the Secretary-General’s the latest semi-annual report (document S/2026/445) on the situation in the region and the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), which highlights developments since the December 2025 briefing, she said the conflict in neighbouring Sudan is now in its fourth year.

• Briefer: Ms. Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations
• Statements: All Council members, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo speaking on behalf of: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Somalia

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S/PV.10167