UN Peacekeeping
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 28, 2023
In a follow-up to our recent analysis on the status of gender parity among United Nations senior-level appointments, which found that almost half of them replaced a woman with a man, we look now at the senior leadership of…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Alan Doss
- • February 16, 2023
Last year was tough for United Nations peacekeeping operations, especially in Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local people demonstrated angrily against the perceived inability of peacekeepers to protect civilians in the east of the country. In…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Joe Penney
- • February 9, 2023
LAGOS — A little more than 11 years after a jihadist and Tuareg separatist alliance stormed northern Mali and wrested control of the main cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal from the Malian state, the two sides are set…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping
- Damilola Banjo
- • February 3, 2023
This week, we focus on UN reform (no joke!); visits by the UN peacekeeping boss to Lebanon, Syria and Israel; and glimmers of hope for Iraq. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 27, 2023
This week, we focus on the worsening violence in Haiti and a major firing of a UN official for corruption. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 23, 2023
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is considering three distinct choices for its future operations, according to a new internal review. The analysis has been brought about by the mission’s “overstretched” status stemming from increased political and security…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Joe Penney
- • December 29, 2022
LAGOS — In January 2017, the Malian foreign minister under President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta organized Mali’s largest diplomatic event in years, the Africa-France summit. Thirty-five heads of state convened in the capital, Bamako, requiring close cooperation with the French…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 16, 2022
This week, opinion seemed divided on the decision to expel Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 18, 2022
It’s a sad one this week as two girls were beheaded in a camp in Syria. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Alan Doss
- • November 14, 2022
In September, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda took their allegations against each other over the resurgence of conflict in the eastern Congo to the United Nations General Assembly. I recall vividly similar claims…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dawn Clancy
- • November 8, 2022
Four months ago, Russia was flagged for breaching international aviation law, and the United Nations has yet to replace dozens of grounded Russian-leased aircraft as a result of the violation. The UN’s response to the International Civil Aviation Authority’s…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 2, 2022
Ambassador Harold Agyeman, Ghana’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said the jury was still out on the use of sanctions to bring Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, to heel over his decision to challenge the sovereignty of Ukraine. With…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping
- Damilola Banjo
- • September 7, 2022
Food prices may still be soaring in crisis-prone countries, but Germany is poised to slash its 2023 contribution to global humanitarian and crisis prevention by nearly $400 million. According to data compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid, Refugees, UN Peacekeeping
- Fred Carver
- • September 4, 2022
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo is in trouble. Some of its problems are chronic, some are acute, but at its heart is a breakdown in trust between the mission and the community with…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 29, 2022
This week, we focus on the deadly attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and assaults in Yemen, leading to deaths of children. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing…
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