David Beasley
- Dawn Clancy
- • August 16, 2022
Dozens of planes and helicopters leased from Russia by United Nations peacekeeping missions and humanitarian operations have been grounded as war-driven sanctions against Russia begin to bite, leaving UN officials scrambling to figure out how to keep critical air…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 5, 2021
COP26 opens with a foreboding announcement from the UN secretary-general; peacekeepers shot by the presidential guard in the Central African Republic; Mexico’s agenda on the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • October 16, 2020
Clair MacDougall was reporting on a follow-up story for PassBlue about Lieut. Col. Carlos Moisés Guillén Alfaro, the first official United Nations peacekeeper to die of Covid-19, when on Oct. 9 she heard that the World Food Program was awarded the…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations
- Clair MacDougall
- • October 10, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso —Â David Beasley, the head of the World Food Program, this year’s just-announced Nobel Peace Prize winner, has warned that the number of people facing starvation could double next year, to 270 million, if the agency is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 27, 2019
The World Food Program may be receiving millions of more donations from the Trump administration than under past presidencies, but its management is skidding around amid complaints of sexual harassment, retaliation, abuse of authority and, most startling, rape, according…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 31, 2018
David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, based in Rome, posted a prayer at the top of his Twitter page in early January, reading: “My prayer for 2018: Peace. Our path to Zero Hunger begins with…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Nikki Haley Watch, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Helmut Volger
- • June 8, 2017
BERLIN — It is a widely held view in political circles here that Germany has not been adequately represented in the United Nations, apart from its relatively frequent elected membership to the Security Council, which Germany has held five…
- Categories: UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
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