Peacekeeping

As the 81st UN General Assembly convenes, UN peacekeeping faces a pivotal crisis marked by Council deadlock, budget shortfalls, and a twelve-year absence of new mission…

The 10th African Peace and Security Annual Conference (Apsaco) in Rabat, Morocco, reviewed a decade of Africa's evolving security landscape. Experts discussed persistent…

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.

Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the strife-torn DRC by five months.

Defence ministers from Uganda, Burundi and Somalia met on Friday in Kampala over the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

After a decade of growth, the UN’s peacekeeping efforts are overstretched with 113 000 military, police and civilians deployed in 18 missions.