CEWARN Director Mr. Richard Barno will be speaking later today (1 October 2014) on behalf of the IGAD Executive Secretary Ambassador Mahboub Maalim at a high-level briefing on the margins of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the topic: “the role of Regional Economic Communities in Consolidating Peace, Security, Governance and Development in the Context of Agenda 2063”.

The session is organized by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Africa and the Office of the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations The event that will be held at the UN Head Quarters in New York at 10am – 1pm (local time), will be live streamed via: http://webtv.un.org/