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- 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
- Tala Dowlatshahi
- • May 15, 2013
The cycle of sexual violence that has been churning throughout the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has refused to stop, despite all the steps the United Nations has taken over decades to end the epidemic….
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 11, 2013
For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution allowing UN troops to go on the offensive in a mission against armed rebels. The combat intervention brigade will operate as part of the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 13, 2013
Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland, United Nations high commissioner for human rights and philanthropist, is said to be the main candidate for the new United Nations special envoy post for the Great Lakes region in central Africa….
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Peace and Security
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 26, 2013
Gold is now one of the most problematic conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and United Nations Security Council sanctions on the illegal mining of natural resources, including gold, have done little to prevent smugglers from…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2012
Important progress in controlling the mining of tin, tantalum and tungsten in the troubled eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo has been achieved, says a report from the Enough Project, a Washington nonprofit group focused on Africa. Yet…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC, Peace and Security
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