Dare, East Timor: UN Volunteer district electoral officers (DEOs) and East Timorese colleagues opened 282 polling centres Sunday for East Timor's first-ever presidential elections. It was the third ballot in East Timor since 1999 that was organized with broad support from the Bonn-based UN Volunteers programme (UNV). Read

Moroni, Comoros: Twenty-one UN Volunteers from 10 countries have arrived in the Comoro islands off the coast of Africa to help observe Sunday's presidential elections. Read

Dili, East Timor: Seventy-five of the 150 district electoral officers (DEOs) recruited by the Bonn-based UN Volunteers programme (UNV) arrived in East Timor this week to prepare and conduct presidential elections scheduled for 14 April. Read

Freetown, Sierra Leone: UN Volunteers began arriving in Sierra Leone over the weekend to help prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections slated for May. Read

Moroni, Comoros: Nine UN Volunteers are currently in the Comoro islands off the coast of Africa to help prepare for a constitutional referendum on 23 December. Read

Dili, East Timor: Today at 7 a.m., teams of Timorese polling staff and their UN Volunteer partners opened 248 polling centres throughout East Timor. It is expected that before the closure of the centres at 4 p.m., more than 400,000 Timorese men and women will have cast their ballot to elect 88 representatives who will, in turn, form a Constituent Assembly. Read

Bonn, Germany: On the eve of East Timor's historic elections, the head of the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers (UNV), Sharon Capeling-Alakija, commended the work of 284 United Nations Volunteers in helping prepare the polls, often under "very difficult circumstances". Read

Bonn, Germany: Tomorrow, exactly two years after the historic referendum for independence from Indonesia, over 400,000 men and women in East Timor will once again cast their votes. Read

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Twenty-four UN Volunteers from 11 countries today began assignments as European Union (EU) long-term observers (LTOs) in the run-up to Bangladesh's parliamentary elections on 1 October. Read

Dili, East Timor: Sixty United Nations Volunteers arrived in East Timor today to prepare and conduct elections scheduled for 30 August. Another group of 60 UN Volunteers, currently in an orientation programme in Darwin, Australia, is expected to arrive on 27 May. Read