Minusma
- 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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2014
BAMAKO, Mali — In the primarily Francophone and Anglophone region of West Africa, Mali is said to have one of the highest rates of female genital mutilation, with about 91 percent of girls and women having undergone the circumcision…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Middle East, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2014
By the time United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named a panel in October to review peacekeeping comprehensively for the first time in more than 14 years, innovations in technology and intelligence-gathering to make UN missions more effective had already…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 1, 2014
Albert Gerard Koenders, the United Nations special envoy for the Mali peacekeeping mission, may be leaving that post in Bamako, the capital, to return to his native Netherlands as the new foreign minister. Neither the UN nor the Dutch…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 25, 2014
BAMAKO, Mali — The deliberate burning of thousands of ancient manuscripts by the Islamic jihadists who seized Timbuktu and other parts of northern Mali in 2012 dealt an emotional blow to the culture and scholars there and far beyond….
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 30, 2014
BAMAKO, Mali — The two black boxes from the recent Air Algérie crash in northern Mali have been retrieved with the help of the United Nations mission in the country, officials from the Algerian and Malian governments told the…
- Categories: Africa
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2014
The United Nations Security Council has authorized yet another peacekeeping force for an African country, the Central African Republic, approving up to 12,000 military and police personnel who are not likely to arrive until mid-September. The goal of the…
- Categories: Asia, Child Soldiers, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 4, 2014
China has dipped a big toe in peacekeeping waters by sending its first-ever infantry troops to work for a United Nations mission — in this case, Mali, where a mission was set up last summer to stabilize the country…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Peace and Security
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 28, 2014
Now that Gao, a remote but critical outpost in northern Mali, has become a hub of military personnel — Mali Army, French troops and UN peacekeepers — to fend off terrorist incursions, it is also a simmering spot for…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 1, 2014
The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations tried to maintain calm in many regions in 2013, but none more so than in Africa. In December alone, it lost numerous peacekeepers in three missions on the continent. By year’s end,…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 7, 2013
Two radio journalists from France were killed on Nov. 2 outside Kidal in the northern desert reaches of Mali. The journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both in their 50s, were kidnapped right in front of a Tuareg official’s…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 15, 2013
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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 3, 2013
The new United Nations peacekeeping mission to be activated on July 1 in Mali will have not only a huge contingent of West African soldiers, who are training there right now, but could also have on board Brazilians, Chinese…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 21, 2013
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Albert Gerard Koenders as the first special envoy to Mali under a new peacekeeping mission created by the Security Council in late April. Additionally, the next executive director of the Security Council’s Counterterrorism…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Peace and Security
- 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
THIS WEEK'S MOST POPULAR
UN-SCRIPTED, PASSBLUE'S UN PODCAST SERIES
