Africa
NAIROBI — In December 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta joined United Nations officials and developers at a 103-acre site in Lukenya, outside the capital of Nairobi, to launch Habitat Heights, a planned 8,888-unit housing project. Today, the site sits abandoned amid …
- Maurice Oniang'o
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The Guyana delegation to the United Nations is building a strong alliance with Africa through the country’s two-year term on the Security Council. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s permanent representative to the UN, counted enhancing the Afro-Caribbean alliance as one of her …
- Damilola Banjo
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The United States withdrew its military personnel from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement revoking all visas held by citizens of the small, landlocked African country. “The United States …
- Damilola Banjo
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During the UN’s annual Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Bolivia held a press briefing on the country’s proposals to address such matters as asking the General Assembly to recognize the “cosmobiocentric view” of Indigenous people, April 24, 2025. From left, …
- Arthur Bassas
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On the second anniversary of the civil war in Sudan, the much-contested Darfur region remains inaccessible for sufficient humanitarian aid without a stable United Nations presence. The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group fighting the government-run Sudanese Armed Forces, currently …
- Arthur Bassas
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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. …
- Anton Ferreira
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South Sudan, Africa’s youngest country, is heading into the lean growing season, when hunger can peak. It is also embroiled in a nasty power brawl between its president and the vice president as fighting in the northeast escalates, driving people …
- Dulcie Leimbach
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This Week @UN: Gambians’ journey to justice; postwar Gaza with Gazans; France helms the UN Security Council amid global turmoil. Plus: Gaza killing fields; cholera in Haiti; Syria surviving; slashing UNOCHA workforce. Follow us on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, …
- Arthur Bassas
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- Damilola Banjo
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is asking the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the Rwandan government for its noncompliance with the Council’s resolution demanding a ceasefire in Congo. The country’s envoy to the UN, Zénon Mukongo …
- Damilola Banjo
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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 …
- Anton Ferreira
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Exclusive Q/A with China’s envoy; Elon rattles South Africa; no Nobel for Trump; no US aid hurts women in Sudan & Congo; US$ for Somali peace ops?; Panamanians love their canal. Yemen; AI; Bangladesh; Trump/Putin; …
- Arthur Bassas
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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 …
- Anton Ferreira
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From Haiti to Sudan, from Syria to Ukraine, emails pleading for support and donations started pouring in after United States President Donald Trump stopped the operations of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Trump’s executive order on …
- Ilgin Yorulmaz
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