As a measure of the dysfunction of the international system the African Union has a special role according to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres...

Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 António Guterres has sounded alarms before but his 28 January warning that the United Nations faces ‘imminent financial collapse' marked the organisation's gravest moment since 1945...

President Donald Trump's speech from the podium was shocking yet his meeting with the Secretary General António Guterres later that day was cordial; he stressed that he needs the UN...

The Quad statement deepens the confusion created by competing initiatives launched by Egypt the African Union and Algeria's Ramtane Lamamra the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General António Guterres...

Plans for the convention have had to adapt due to the UN's hiring freeze after Secretary General António Guterres targeted an at least 20% cut in running costs this year...

The relocation of several United Nations agencies – including UN Women the UN Children's Fund and the UN Population Fund – to Nairobi as part of the UN80 restructuring programme drafted by Secretary-General António Guterres has brought considerable relief to high-end estate agents in the Kenyan capital...

That may have prompted the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to announce that his Special Representative on Sudan and former Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ramtane Lamamra would launch a new Consultative Group meeting with the African Union in Addis Ababa to scale up efforts to resolve the Sudan crisis...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed a Task Force in March to propose radical reforms as the UN marks its 80th anniversary...

For over two years the UN Secretariat in New York has been buzzing with rumours about the mooted early departure of Secretary-General António Guterres...