Damilola Banjo
Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also oversees all video production for PassBlue. She was a Dag Hammarskjold fellow in 2023 and a Pulitzer Center postgraduate fellow in 2021. She was part of the BBC Africa team that produced the Emmy-nominated documentary, "Sex for Grades." In addition, she worked for WFAE, an NPR affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. Banjo has a master's of science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an undergraduate degree from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to keep the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan operating for another year after members negotiatiated vigorously over numerous elements of the mandate renewal, including the future of the mission itself. For the …
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Tracker
The two-day informal interactive dialogues organized by Annalena Baerbock, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, wrapped up on April 22 with a three-hour session with Rebeca Grynspan in the morning, followed by Macky Sall in the afternoon. He, …
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Secretary-General Election 2026
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has yet to win full buy-in for his daring proposal to secure safe passage for vessels ferrying fertilizer and other agriproducts through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. The initiative, announced on 27 March, would involve …
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General
The United Nations General Assembly’s debut “dialogues” with the four candidates vying so far for secretary-general kicked off on April 21, lasting all day with two of the contenders, Michelle Bachelet and Rafael Grossi. Each fielded three hours of interactive …
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Secretary-General Election 2026
Macky Sall, a former Senegalese president, is continuing to meet with countries bilaterally to shore up support for his candidacy for the top position at the United Nations even as an endorsement from the African Union, or AU, remains out …
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, UN Secretary-General Election 2026
The United States has nominated Luke Lindberg, the undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs in the Department of Agriculture, to lead the Rome-based World Food Program, the largest humanitarian agency globally. Lindberg, who lives in South Dakota, most recently …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Tracker
The push to consolidate the two United Nations’ agencies dedicated to women’s rights and reproductive health has produced a formal path for their merger. An initial assessment done under the UN80 Initiative, the systemwide reform plan to make the world …
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Reform, Women
Bahrain, a small island country situated between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Mideast, with a population of under two million, is walking a diplomatic tightrope to secure the backing of the United Nations Security Council on a draft text …
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council Presidency
Thousands of Americans, including young students, are one part of the million visitors that the United Nations receives annually, and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of the host city of the 80-year-old organization, joined the pack with the boss of the …
- Categories: Secretary-General
The United Nations is stepping into the multifront war in the Mideast as threats to global food security mount due to the virtual closure of one of the world’s most-critical maritime chokepoints, a month into the United States-Israeli attacks on …
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General
A United Nation General Assembly resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparatory justice for enslaved Africans and their descendants was approved on Wednesday by a majority of countries. Most European countries, …
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, General Assembly
An average of 87 children are being killed or injured every day in the mutlifront conflict in the Mideast since the United States-Israeli joint military action in Iran started on Feb. 28, says a senior official of Unicef. Ted Chaiban, …
- Categories: Middle East
The United States again suffered a blunt blow as member states at the annual United Nations conference on women’s rights rejected Washington’s proposal to narrow the definition of “gender” to mean “men and women.” The proposal was left on the …
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Tracker
The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Wednesday invoking Article 51 in the UN Charter — member states’ collective or individual right to self-defense — against the retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Gulf region amid the Mideast …
- Categories: Middle East, Security Council
The United States set a new precedent at the United Nations annual women’s rights meeting by requesting a recorded vote on the draft conclusions. The US action culminated after weekslong negotiations on this year’s theme, “Ensuring and Strengthening Access to …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Tracker
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