The ANC and its GNU partners are divided over South Africa’s military involvement in the DRC, as opposition parties call for an immediate withdrawal of troops
The British high commissioner to South Africa reflects on the value of the United Nations for the UK and South Africa to achieve shared objectives
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
Find out about the SANDF’s new uniform, which is costing taxpayers close to R200-million, while mission-critical equipment is not maintained
As senior legal officers take their battles with the head of the legal division to court, about a thousand military court cases are in limbo
Why is the private sector in Africa more likely to hinder instead of help peaceful development?
It’s been a year since Frelimo and Renamo signed the Maputo Accord. This time, the peace might just hold
United Nations money for SA peacekeepers is channelled to treasury instead of defence
The war in Angola was disrupting Jean-Yves Ollivier’s life, so he took steps to put an end to it.
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/ 23 October 2010
Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.
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/ 24 December 2009
The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the strife-torn DRC by five months.
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/ 25 September 2009
Defence ministers from Uganda, Burundi and Somalia met on Friday in Kampala over the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
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/ 24 January 2009
After a decade of growth, the UN’s peacekeeping efforts are overstretched with 113 000 military, police and civilians deployed in 18 missions.
President George Bush on Monday authorised the immediate use of US aircraft to transport supplies to the peacekeeping force in Darfur.
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/ 4 November 2008
The top US diplomat on Africa said on Monday that progress has been made recently in the deployment of UN peacekeepers to Darfur.
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/ 31 October 2008
Defence Minister Charles Nqakula has extended his sympathies to the family of a South African soldier who was killed in Sudan earlier this week.
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/ 29 September 2008
The European Union expects Russia to supply it with helicopters for its Chad peace mission despite its dispute with Moscow over Georgia.
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/ 25 September 2008
The UN on Wednesday renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Chad, which has been monitoring the country’s border with the CAR.
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/ 3 September 2008
Sudanese forces accused of killing more than 30 people in a raid on a Darfur camp have started to build up outside the settlement, peacekeepers say.
I am a war child. A survivor plagued by memories. When they open their eyes, children in Darfur see the same.
The international community must deploy UN peacekeepers in Somalia without delay or risk worsening insecurity, the country’s prime minister says.
Nigeria has a battalion of about 800 soldiers ready to deploy to Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping force and could send more if needed.