International Crisis Group
- Damilola Banjo and Kacie Candela
- • August 3, 2022
As Security Council president in August, China wants to keep the UN body “cool” — literally and figuratively — by navigating the fine line of staying close to Russia while not souring relations too much with the West; discussing…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 31, 2022
The number of uninvestigated civilian deaths in Mali is rising but regional bodies and the governments responsible are not willing to take action. From 2018 to 2021, an independent Malian-based news site, sahelien.com, recorded six incidents where 43 civilians…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 3, 2022
Comfort Ero knew that her appointment as the president and chief executive of the International Crisis Group, a New York City-based think tank working to prevent wars, would be arduous. But taking up the role in December, two months…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women as Changemakers
- Yujie Zhou
- • December 9, 2021
The Central African Republic has long suffered from internal strife and human-rights abuses, but the situation now is perhaps the worst it has ever been and could grow more dire. The central government controls only a small portion of…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, US Foreign Relations
- Joe Penney
- • May 8, 2018
A new series called “Peacebuilders,” offering a weekly podcast of interviews with a diverse array of African and other professionals on vital issues they confront in their work in East Africa, has been introduced by the Carnegie Corporation of…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 13, 2016
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Nowhere can the positive presence of the United States in West Africa be more obvious than in the quiet, dusty nation of Burkina Faso, a mostly rural state surrounded by six other countries of ranging…
- Categories: Africa, US Foreign Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • July 18, 2015
When war breaks out, you would think the easy answer would be to send in a United Nations peacekeeping mission, right? In fact, it is fairly rare and extraordinarily challenging to pull such a mission together. Even then, the…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 18, 2015
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 6, 2013
Late in September 1999, a quiet man whom the Indonesian military had painted as a fearsome terrorist turned up in my office at the United Nations, where he had come to help plan the future of a new country,…
- Yermi Brenner
- • May 14, 2013
It was the 29th minute of the decisive World Cup qualifying match in March between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Greece. A midfielder, Zvjezdan Misimovic, a Bosnian Serb, delivered a beautiful pass to a striker, Edin Dzeko, a Bosnian Muslim, who headed…
- Categories: Governance, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 25, 2013
The United Nations Security Council has authorized a new, ambitious stabilization mission to be deployed in Mali, consisting of nearly 13,000 military and police personnel who will begin operating on July 1 with a mandate of one year to…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • March 20, 2013
With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 5, 2013
Gert Rosenthal does not sound like a Spanish name, but the mother of Rosenthal, the Guatemalan ambassador to the United Nations, was born there and his father was German. To complicate matters, “a little accident happened,” he said, as…
- Categories: ICC, Security Council, UN Diplomats
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