PH AMBASSADOR TANG PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO UN UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL IN NAIROBI
NAIROBI, 18 May 2022 – PH Ambassador Marie Charlotte G. Tang presented her credentials to UN Undersecretary-General and the Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON) Zainab Hawa Bangura today.
During the ceremony, they discussed current events including COVID-19 developments, and UNON’s future projects. Welcoming the presence of another female Ambassador, Undersecretary General Bangura shared that UN Secretary General António Guterres has made it a mission to achieve UN system-wide gender parity by 2028 which UNON has been implementing since 2017. PH Permanent Representative Tang shared that the Philippines is ranked second in gender equality in the Asia-Pacific Region.
UNON hosts 27 UN regional offices, including the headquarters of two UN global authorities: the UN Environment Fund (UNEP) and UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat).
UNON was established in 1996, becoming one of the four major UN office sites along with New York, Geneva and Vienna, and is the UN’s only headquarters in Africa and the global south. END
PH EMBASSY IN NAIROBI COMPLETES SIXTH CONSULAR MISSION IN THREE WEEKS WITH OUTREACH IN UGANDA
Kampala, 1 May 2022 - The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi’s consular mission in Uganda on 1 May 2022 concludes the six-country series of outreach missions that the Embassy conducted during the 2022 overseas voting period for the Philippine national elections. Countries where the Embassy also conducted outreach missions in the month of April were South Sudan, Seychelles, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In coordination with the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Kampala, the Embassy's team composed of Second Secretary and Consul Maria Rosanna O. Josue, and Attaché Celine D. Bejar, provided passport, notarial, and other consular services to Filipinos in Uganda.
Mobile voting for the 2022 Presidential elections was also available to qualified registered Filipino overseas voters.
During the mission, the Embassy team also encouraged the Filipino community to register in its overseas Filipino mapping project and gave a talk on RA 11313 or the Safe Spaces Act.
Uganda, nicknamed the Pearl of Africa, is host to nearly two hundred Overseas Filipinos, who are mostly professionals or skilled workers.
PH EMBASSY IN NAIROBI CONDUCTS ITS FIRST CONSULAR MISSION IN THE DR CONGO SINCE THE PANDEMIC
Third Secretary and Vice Consul Louie Dane Merced (left) and Attaché Sherlyn Roxas (right) during the processing and encoding of passport applications of Filipino clients in Kinshasa.
KINSHASA, 30 April 2022 – The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi successfully conducted a consular mission in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) on 28 April 2022, its first outreach to the country since the pandemic started.
The two-member team rendered passport, notarial, and other consular services as part of the Embassy’s continuing efforts to provide services to Filipinos residing in the 12 countries under its jurisdiction.
Apart from answering clients' questions about consular matters and overseas absentee voting, the team also showed the Embassy’s “Women Who Make Change” video interview series, a Gender and Development (GAD) project to promote better understanding of gender-based issues and challenges.
The team also took the opportunity to assess the situation of Filipinos in the DR Congo, particularly in light of the recent attacks by armed groups on civilians and the country's latest reported Ebola outbreak. The Embassy team encouraged the Filipinos in the DR Congo to participate in the Embassy’s ongoing overseas Filipino mapping project.
There are over 140 Filipinos currently working in the DR Congo, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of them are skilled workers, United Nations (UN) agencies employees, and religious missionaries. END
PH EMBASSY IN NAIROBI PROVIDES CONSULAR SERVICES AND MOBILE VOTING IN TANZANIA
Dar es Salaam, 24 April 2022 - The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi successfully concluded a consular outreach mission in Tanzania on 24 April 2022, the fourth of a series of outreach missions it is conducting timed with the 2022 overseas voting for the Philippine national elections.
The Embassy's team composed of Second Secretary and Consul Maria Rosanna O. Josue, and Attaché Marco Antonio Angelo S. Santos, in coordination with the Filipino Community in Tanzania and the Kaibigan–Filipino Association in Tanzania, provided passport, notarial, and other consular services to Filipinos in Tanzania.
Mobile voting for the 2022 Presidential elections was also available to qualified registered Filipino overseas voters.
During the mission the Embassy team also encouraged the Filipino community to register in its overseas Filipino mapping project and showed its three-part video interview series, “Women Who Make Change,” earlier released on the occasion of the 2022 International Women’s Day.
Tanzania, an East African nation along the Indian Ocean, is host to around three hundred Overseas Filipinos, who are mostly professionals or skilled workers.
Diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Tanzania were established in 1961.
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