Anton Ferreira
Anton Ferreira worked for 23 years as a correspondent and desk editor at Reuters. He started in Hong Kong and later worked long-term assignments in the Mideast, Latin America, New York City, Washington and South Africa. Ferreira is now based in South Africa.
Nyet to Concessions With Ukraine Amid rising tensions in Europe between NATO members and Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Western leaders on Sept. 27 that his country would deliver “a decisive response” to any attack. In his high-level …
- Categories: UNGA80
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his speech to the General Assembly on Friday — which he said was broadcast live to Gaza via loudspeakers — condemned Western leaders for recognizing the Palestinian state earlier this week and vowed they would …
- Categories: UNGA80
Two midlevel United States officials visited Bamako in July to explore cooperation in fighting Mali’s 13-year jihadist insurgency in return for access to the Sahel country’s gold and lithium. The officials — Rudy Atallah, deputy senior director for counterterrorism at …
- Categories: Terrorism, US-UN Relations
Amid the drastic, sweeping cuts to United States foreign aid under the Trump administration, the UN Mine Action Service operation in Nigeria appears to be an anomaly — no stop-work order was issued and it even had its funding renewed …
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament, US-UN Relations, US-UN Tracker
The United States is clear that it will not support the United Nations’ proposed funding model for the African Union security force in Somalia, placing a large question mark over the international mission to contain the jihadist Al Shabab group. …
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
It may seem like a joke, but in the absurd diplomacy of dealing with President Donald Trump, South Africa’s best move could be to appoint a golf champion as its next ambassador to Washington. Last week, United States Secretary of …
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ukraine-Russia War
The Security Council has extended the United Nations-African Union operation fighting the Al Shabab jihadists in Somalia by five years, but uncertainties and imponderables abound — including the new funding shocks ushered in by President Donald Trump in January. The …
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
CAPE TOWN — As Elon Musk ensconces himself as possibly the most powerful individual in the world, the South Africans he left behind in the land of his birth are watching hypnotized, reacting with a range of terror, aversion, awe …
- Categories: Africa, US-UN Relations
A mercy trip by a senior United Nations Development Program staffer in West Africa to rush her cat to a vet about 185 miles and two countries away sparked an angry denunciation that led to a formal inquiry by the …
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
As calls to suspend or even expel Israel from the United Nations General Assembly over its treatment of Palestinians grow more strident, Pakistan has made clear it views such steps as a last resort to be considered only after attempts …
- Categories: General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Given the disdain for Africa that Donald Trump showed during his first term, it might be surprising that the new “first buddy,” a leading member of his incoming administration, was born and raised on the continent. Elon Musk, born in …
- Categories: Africa, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US-UN Relations
The votes are in, and PassBlue is pleased to announce the winners of its informal reader survey as to which African countries should get the continent’s two mooted permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council: South Africa and Nigeria. …
- Categories: Africa, Security Council
An intensifying dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa’s proposed recognition of a breakaway Somali state and uncertainty about the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia are creating an opening for the jihadist group Al Shabaab, which regional analysts …
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
Israel: Anti-Semitism and Iran’s Evil Designs A defiant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his speech to the UN General Assembly Friday to drill home his refrain that Iran is the global ground zero of evil, that Israel’s opponents are anti-Semites …
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, UNGA79
South Africa: ‘We Know What Apartheid Looks Like’ President Cyril Ramaphosa — whose government brought the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December — cited South Africa’s grim status as the country that spawned …
- Categories: General Assembly, UNGA79
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