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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 11, 2020
Far from United Nations headquarters in New York and its offices in other cities around the world, many thousands of UN staff members are adjusting to new, more disturbing and dangerous realities in the era of Covid-19. Daily life…
- Dragica Mikavica
- • July 30, 2019
Every time the budget committee of the United Nations meets, as it did in June, child-protection advocates enter a familiar existential crisis: will the United States and China cut UN budgets specifically allocated to specialists on child protection in…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 24, 2019
Since 2012, a German political think tank has surveyed Malians regularly on their country’s current affairs across a legion of crises. These include the 2013 jihadist incursion in the nation, the French-led militarization to oust the jihadists, the post-conflict…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 2, 2018
As peacekeepers sweat and toil and risk their lives in some of the world’s most lethal settings — South Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo — it is incumbent on the United Nations and its…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Benoit Bryche
- • October 30, 2017
TIMBUKTU — Who wants peace in Mali? If everyone says they want it, why is carrying out the 2015 peace agreement and its cease-fire so difficult? Part of the challenge for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is…
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susan Manuel
- • June 30, 2017
After a month of contentious debate between the United Nations Security Council and UN budget committees, agreement has been reached for the UN to stay focused on Mali and the Sahel region, where terrorism is threatening to destabilize the…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- François Rihouay
- • June 24, 2017
It always took me ages to hit the road to the Kangaba camp. Leaving downtown Bamako can be tricky, especially if your place is baco fé — on the far bank of the Niger River — as they say in…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde
- • June 15, 2017
Although the plan to deploy a West African troop contingent, called the G5 Sahel Joint Force, presents an opportunity to improve much-needed cooperation among the Sahel countries, it will not be a game-changer in the fight against the persistent…
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, WORLDVIEWS
- Julie Vanderperre
- • November 10, 2016
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
- Susan Manuel
- • May 28, 2016
The United Nations is looking for new blood to staff its peace operations while prompting long-serving employees to get out of headquarters and work in the field. In demand for jobs in UN peace operations are female managers, bilingual…
- Categories: UN Careers, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 11, 2016
Since its rollout in 2013, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali has been actively recruiting more European troops to strengthen its ranks of police, military and civilian personnel from African and Asian countries, typical sources for UN missions….
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 16, 2015
An offensive against Boko Haram by a regional task force is preparing to deploy, led by Nigeria and its partners — Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin. At least that is the plan. Troops will number about 8,000 soldiers, with…
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 16, 2015
The creation of a new office of deputy secretary-general for peace and security to consolidate and hasten United Nations’ responses to conflicts, and a surprising suggestion that the UN should not undertake missions involving counterterrorism were two major recommendations…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Sam J. Trudeau
- • April 15, 2015
Facing a surge in violence that has made it the United Nations’ deadliest peacekeeping operations now, the UN mission in Mali is struggling to convince populations in the north of the country that it can overcome the remaining obstacles…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Alexander Brotman
- • April 6, 2015
The small Central American nation of El Salvador has been playing an increasingly active role in United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world. From the UN mission in Haiti to the one in South Sudan, troops from El Salvador…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
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