Wagner Group
- Joe Penney
- • February 9, 2023
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LAGOS — A little more than 11 years after a jihadist and Tuareg separatist alliance stormed northern Mali and wrested control of the main cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal from the Malian state, the two sides are set…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping
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- Joe Penney
- • December 29, 2022
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LAGOS — In January 2017, the Malian foreign minister under President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta organized Mali’s largest diplomatic event in years, the Africa-France summit. Thirty-five heads of state convened in the capital, Bamako, requiring close cooperation with the French…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • October 10, 2022
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Marat Gabidullin is throwing open the door on the notorious Wagner Group, the Russian quasi-private army that operates in the shadows and doesn’t exist on paper. When he released his memoir in April in French, describing his time as…
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Peace and Security, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 3, 2022
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This week, our focus is on the continuing efforts of the United Nations to reduce civilian casualties in different pockets of unrest across the globe. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 31, 2022
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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
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 13, 2022
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This week, we focus on how the UN is further rallying support to combat the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the widespread condemnation against the killing of Al Jazeera’s reporter in Palestine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • May 9, 2022
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The presence of the Russian state-linked Wagner Group mercenaries in the diamond-rich Central African Republic has been bloody. Now it seems that Russia has used its power in the United Nations Security Council to protect its exploits and geostrategic…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council
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- Clair MacDougall
- • March 23, 2022
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As the world’s deadliest United Nations mission, in Mali, registered its first two peacekeeper deaths for 2022 from improvised explosive devices, uncertainty looms over the role that the French military operation Barkhane will play in helping protect UN bases…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Yujie Zhou
- • December 9, 2021
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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
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