Resolution 1325 marks a milestone in the UN’s thinking about women: their lives are multilinear and multiple factors affect their participation in public and private life
More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and leading nongovernmental organisations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an investigation by the nonprofit news agency The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation has revealed. In interviews, 51 women — many of whose […]
The international organisation has been on the receiving end of bitter criticism since South Sudan’s first case of Covid-19 was confirmed to be a UN staffer
There are more boy scouts than peacekeepers in the CAR. Even in the midst of a civil war, the scouts are arguably more effective
The latest allegations have surfaced a month after South African troops were accused of sexually exploiting women in North Kivu.
UN-backed peacekeepers have lost enough guns and ammunition in sub-Saharan Africa over the past two decades to arm an army, said Small Arms Survey
A UN peacekeeping force has been in Western Sahara since 1991 with a mandate to organise a referendum on its independence or integration with Morocco.
UN head Antonio Guterres has tapped Jane Connors to put victims first as she works to eliminate sexual exploitation committed by peacekeeping troops.
Research on the South African National Defence Force shows that women regard their contribution to peacekeeping operations far highler than men do.
More UN troops in the DRC are accused of abusing those they were meant to protect – and face paternity claims from their alleged victims.
Men sent to stabilise the Central African Republic are accused of sexual violation and civilian death.
While the political situation in the Central African Republic seems to stabilise after an interim president took over, violence is still rife.
UN troops have taken over security duties from African soldiers in Mali just four weeks ahead of planned elections.
UN soldiers will take over from African troops in Mali after Ban Ki-moon highlighted the lack of training among the West African peacekeepers.
The UN Security Council is expected to approve a peacekeeping force for Mali to help restore democracy and stabilise the northern half of the country.
An intervention brigade designed to fight armed groups in the restive eastern DRC will be made up of 3 069 troops, the UN has confirmed.
Five Indian peacekeepers and at least seven UN civilian staff have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, officials have said.
Happy to be home, the four South African police officers who were kidnapped in Sudan said their captors treated them like human beings.
Negotiations are continuing to secure the release of four SA peacekeepers who were abducted in Sudan, it was reported on Friday.
Four South African peacekeepers who were kidnapped in Darfur over a week ago will be released after election results are out.
No ransom demands had been made for four South African peacekeepers kidnapped in Sudan, the UNAMID in Darfur said on Wedesday.
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/ 2 December 2009
In a khaki tent shielded by sandbags, four Ugandan officers are watching Black Hawk Down.
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/ 18 December 2008
A 17 000-strong peacekeeping mission in the DRC is no longer equal to the task after a recent upsurge in fighting, a top UN official says.
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/ 16 December 2008
The commander of UN peacekeepers in the DRC says his troops are ”dissatisfied” because they are unable to protect civilians as they would like.
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/ 29 September 2008
A helicopter working for peacekeepers in Darfur crashed on Monday, killing at least two people.
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday authorised an African Union force in Somalia for another six months.
Sudan on Friday threatened to expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Bashir is indicted for war crimes by the ICC.