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.
United States President Trump has made it abundantly clear that the United Nations needs to shrink and to spend less. Washington is now suggesting that cuts in salaries of personnel be made across the international organization. American diplomats at the …
- Categories: General Assembly, UN Reform, US-UN Tracker
Olukemi Ibikunle, 43, cracked the code for getting establishments to break new ground. In Nigeria, where government processes can be slow and bureaucracy creates obstacles that can stifle innovations, Ibikunle as a corrections official, got the authority to literally knock …
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
As Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for October, some of its top diplomats recently praised United States President Trump while scorning Moscow’s European neighbors. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative …
A Gang Suppression Force to be installed in Haiti was approved by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday through a resolution that transitions the Multinational Security Support (MSS) police mission into an offensive militarized force for an initial …
- Categories: Caribbean, Security Council, US-UN Tracker
As the use of artificial intelligence grows rapidly across industries, bringing both its potential and peril, experts from leading institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, as well as representatives from Microsoft and …
- Categories: UNGA80
Palestinian President Rejects ‘Greater Israel’ Plan In a video speech heard by world leaders at the 80th session of the General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas, the 89-year-old president of the Palestinian Authority, rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed “Greater Israel” …
- Categories: UNGA80
As Kenya’s Security Role in Haiti May End, Ruto Says It Was Underfunded Kenyan President William Ruto called for reform of the United Nations and the Security Council and criticized the organization for what he described as inadequate support for …
- Categories: UNGA80
An escalator incident involving United States President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as they headed into the United Nations General Assembly Hall on the opening day of the 80th high-level session, Sept. 23, has incited claims on social media …
- Categories: UNGA80
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky devoted most of his speech at the 80th General Assembly high-level session to appeal for new war technology to defend his country better as its skylines are being bombarded by Russia regularly with cheap, one-way drones …
- Categories: General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA80
France and about 10 countries in the United Nations joined more than 140 other nations recognizing Palestine as a sovereign state in a symbolic diplomatic move aimed at pressuring Israel to end its war on Gaza. Yet, the formal recognition …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, UNGA80
The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — Britain, China, France, United States and Russia — may be deadlocked on many global issues, but they put aside their differences to preserve their primary influence over the selection …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council
Women are underrepresented and misrepresented in the news globally, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project 2025 report. It revealed that only 1.8 percent of news coverage focuses on gender-based violence despite the prevalence of the problem among women, who …
- Categories: Women
The monthly rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council provides countries with the opportunity to spotlight issues most important to them. As South Korea assumes the role this September, it will convene a high-level debate on artificial intelligence. The …
- Categories: Asia, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council Presidency
Every September for as long as anyone can remember, the United Nations General Assembly turns New York City into an epicenter of diplomacy, advocacy, deal-making, global partying and Midtown traffic jams. The 80th UNGA, as it’s known, opens its annual …
- Categories: General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, SDGs, Secretary-General
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