Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 19, 2017
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Can a rebuttal happen before an event occurs? United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took pre-emptive strikes against President Donald Trump in his speech at the opening session of the 72nd General Assembly, on Sept. 19, 2017. Rumors were rampant…
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- Julie Vanderperre
- • November 10, 2016
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The Dutch contingent of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is withdrawing its seven helicopters from the operation by spring, leaving a wide hole in reconnaissance and intelligence gathering for the mission that desperately needs those assets. With no…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
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- Tendai Musakwa
- • November 10, 2015
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The first United Nations development aid program financed solely by African countries for their own benefit was announced recently at the UN headquarters in New York. Unitlife, which was presented as world leaders convened at the 70th session of…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Education, Health and Population, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 18, 2015
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, the most demanding and bloodiest operation in the organization’s global portfolio, is moving its major functions from its base in Bamako, the capital, to Gao, a remote city also on the Niger…
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 3, 2014
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BAMAKO, Mali — As the first United States-African leaders summit opens this week in Washington, D.C, it is hard to hear Malians in their capital drum up enthusiasm for it. President Barack Obama has invited 50 African heads of…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Governance, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 15, 2013
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Malians elected their first president since an interim president was installed after the 2012 coup and French military action in 2013 against incursions by Islamic jihadists. In a run-off vote on Aug. 11, amid blanket rain and rampant…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Peace and Security