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 offices of Sweden’s mission to the United Nations in New York City and in Geneva are keeping mum as questions arise about the involvement of Lisa Svensson, a top Swedish diplomat, with the disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Marie …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
United States First Lady Melania Trump presided over a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday to talk about the impact of conflict on children, barely two days after schools were hit and children were killed amid the US-Israeli attacks …
- Categories: Education, Middle East, Security Council, US-UN Tracker
Most of the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council fell short of condemning the United States and Israel explicitly for their joint military attacks on Iran early on Saturday, Feb. 28. The Council convened an emergency session later …
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Tracker
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for “a just and lasting peace” in Ukraine on Tuesday while rejecting a last-minute proposal from the United States to delete two crucial paragraphs from the draft text that included references …
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
The United Nations headquarters in New York City is hard to miss. A walk down First Avenue between 43rd and 52nd Streets resembles a little UN village. Opposite the towering 39-story Secretariat building backing the East River is an outdoor …
- Categories: US-UN Tracker
The United Nations Security Council, like the rest of the world, will be watching the inaugural meeting on Feb. 19 of President Trump’s Board of Peace, the new entity established by a Council resolution to implement the US-led 20-point peace …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council
James Kariuki, Britain’s chargé d’affaires to the United Nations, says his country will continue to push the ambitions of the women, peace and security agenda as a permanent member and rotating president of the Security Council this month. It remains …
The United States sits atop a list of countries involved in prolonged wars and humanitarian crises that have also not paid their assessed dues on time or at all in the last few years to the United Nations regular operating …
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Tracker
Chilean President Gabriel Boric has officially submitted the nomination of former President Michelle Bachelet to be a candidate in the race for the next secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding António Guterres, a Portuguese politician who has led the organization …
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Secretary-General Election 2026
Countries are treading carefully about the possible merger of two major United Nations agencies focusing solely on women’s rights and reproductive health as experts warn about the vast perceived risks of diluting the two entities’ distinct roles into one. Diplomats …
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Reform, Women
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned Israel’s demolition of the headquarters compound of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in East Jerusalem, describing the move as an attack on the world body itself. Farhan Haq, the …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General
Annalena Baerbock, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, is appealing for more candidates to enter the race to become the next secretary-general. She said that a contest with only one contender — so far — would undercut the …
From Ukraine to Gaza, from the Sahel to the South China Sea, armed conflict and geopolitical fights are reshaping global priorities. Governments are pouring unprecedented sums into defense budgets, driven by wars, rivalries among major powers and spreading insecurity in …
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament
The United Nations says that beyond the social media announcement from the United States government on Jan. 7 about its withdrawal from 66 international and UN entities, the information has not been officially communicated to the world body. Washington has …
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Tracker
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