Niger
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 2, 2021
When Niger, a landlocked country in West Africa, started its term on the Security Council almost two years ago, Covid-19 was not an international crisis yet, Operation Barkhane, a French antiterrorist operation launched in 2014, was full-fledged in the…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council Presidency
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 5, 2021
COP26 opens with a foreboding announcement from the UN secretary-general; peacekeepers shot by the presidential guard in the Central African Republic; Mexico’s agenda on the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 29, 2021
A coup in Khartoum; global carbon emissions revert to pre-Covid levels; a new UN envoy is named for Myanmar. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Africa, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021
The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are…
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 1, 2021
Where were the women at UNGA?; feminists want big action by UN Women; undersea mining may be underway. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings,…
- Categories: Climate Change, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 27, 2021
On the last day of global leaders’ speeches at the opening of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the array of countries on the roster ranged from Israel to Iceland, from Algeria to North Korea, from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Covid-19, General Assembly, UNGA76, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • October 16, 2020
Clair MacDougall was reporting on a follow-up story for PassBlue about Lieut. Col. Carlos Moisés Guillén Alfaro, the first official United Nations peacekeeper to die of Covid-19, when on Oct. 9 she heard that the World Food Program was awarded the…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 1, 2020
Niger hasn’t been a member of the Security Council for almost 40 years, and now that it has a voice on one of the world’s most visible platforms, it intends to use it to build more alliances with influential…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council Presidency
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 23, 2015
Chad is not only leading the regional military assault on the Boko Haram terrorist group but it is also said to be leading the drafting of a United Nations Security Council resolution to authorize the multinational task force in…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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