Geneva (UNOSDP) - On Saturday 25 February 2012, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, Wilfried Lemke, will jointly – together with the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge – visit community sports projects in Lusaka, Zambia. They will be accompanied by other high-ranked IOC and Zambian Government officials.

Libreville (UNOCA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abou Moussa, and the President of the African Football Confederation (CAF), Mr. Issa Hayatou, met on Tuesday 7 February in Libreville, on the margins of the 28th African Cup of Nations (CAN) co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

Nairobi (UNEP) - Kenya's top runners will join the public later this month for an historic half-marathon that will celebrate the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) four decades of working for the environment and raising public awareness of what needs to be done to ensure the sustainable future of the planet.

Paris (UNESCO) - Óscar Washington Tabárez, the Uruguayan national football team manager, will be named UNESCO Champion for Sport by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, during a ceremony at Organization Headquarters on 30 January (11 a.m., 7th floor).

Geneva (UNAIDS) - UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé travelled to the West African nation of Gabon on 23 January to lend his support to an innovative campaign launched by the Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation — a charitable organization run by Gabon’s First Lady.

Geneva (UNOSDP) – Wilfried Lemke, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, was in attendance last week at the closing of the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOGs) in Innsbruck, Austria. Tomorrow, he will travel to Belgium where he will give a lecture at the European Parliament and participate in a ceremony commemorating the Christmas Truce football game during WWI.