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Did Equatorial Guinea Bribe Its Way to a UN Security Council Seat?

February 5, 2019May 23, 2017 by Kacie Candela

Amid the predominantly Francophone region in West Africa is tiny Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea, a country blessed — or cursed — with vast oil reserves. For most of its independent life, the country has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has the distinction of being the longest-serving nonroyal head of state in the … Read more

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Africa’s War Problem

July 12, 2016 by Irwin Arieff

Too much of Africa is a mess. While there are, of course, great success stories, many countries continue, despite the end of colonialism and the Cold War, to suffer wildly from poverty, illness, corruption, coups and wars — too many compared with the rest of the world. Even as an outsized slice of United Nations … Read more

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Regional Organizations Remain Vital to the UN

December 23, 2014April 30, 2013 by Helmut Volger

Alicia Barcena of ECLAC and Jan Eliasson of the UN

Formed as a “club” of nation states, the United Nations took some time to find out that cooperation with regional organizations might be of some use in improving social and economic living conditions as well as maintaining international peace and security and safeguarding the enjoyment of human rights. It was not before the economic crisis … Read more

Regional Partners Lighten the UN’s Burdens

December 29, 2011November 26, 2011 by Barbara Crossette

Since the founding of the United Nations more than 65 years ago, groups of regional nations – in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas – have become the organization’s political, peacekeeping and development partners. While some of these groups have kept a low profile, several now find themselves in the international spotlight as crucial issues … Read more

Africa’s War Problem

Regional Partners Lighten the UN’s Burdens

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