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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 …
This Week @UN: UN80’s shortcomings; Grynspan guns for SecGen; gender entities merger?; World Food Program nominee. Plus: Diplomatic steps in Sudan; Trump’s apocalypse now; how 3 Indonesian peacekeepers died; Mideast ceasefire; no letup in Lebanon; elephants galore. • Did someone …
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, …
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 …
Nick Haysom, the United Nations Secretary-General’s special representative for South Sudan, says the war-torn country is at a tipping point where it either finds the political will to properly implement its peace agreement or it plunges deeper into prolonged chaos. …
While the main warring parties — M23 rebels and Congolese national army — struggle to silence their weapons in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite continuing peace initiatives, the region’s civilians continue to suffer from the conflict as …
Sierra Leone came to the United Nations Security Council ready to change the system. Instead, it found itself learning just how resistant the system is to change. The small West African country took its seat as an elected member of …
United States President Trump may want to see a ceasefire in Sudan, but Washington’s close ties with the United Arab Emirates are keeping the administration from being more assertive in trying to stop the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces …
Emeka* said the lecturer called them “childish” if they resisted his advances. He would put on pornography and force them to watch, then begin touching himself. Emeka recalled those nights in vivid detail. Three boys, all under 18, were living …
This Week @UN: French-Saudi peace push for Palestine; Israel threatens Palestinian “economic warfare”; US sanctions UN human rights expert; UN must attract young people. Plus: Gaza; Guatemala; Sudan; Myanmar; UN reform. Stay with us all week on Blue Sky, Twitter …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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