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Trending UN News: Week Ending Dec. 9

This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …

Adonia Ayebare and Linda Thomas-Greenfield at UN General Assembly

Uganda’s Museveni Doesn’t Deserve a Seat at the US-Africa Summit, Critics Say

President Joseph Biden has invited 49 African national leaders and the head of the African Union to the White House this month for a summit emphasizing America’s “enduring” commitment to the continent and continued collaboration on such global priorities as …

Joseph Biden, President of the United States

Day 2, UN General Assembly’s Big Week: Russia’s War on Ukraine Dominates

[…] GDP on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” Even though Biden repeatedly emphasized the need for global cooperation, the delivery of his speech, whether addressing peace and stability in the Taiwan strait, political violence in Haiti, …

Who Is Putin the ‘Butcher’? The Enigma Around Him Persists

Vladimir Putin could be likened to a Rubik’s cube, a puzzle of a man who remains impossible to fully solve. As he unleashed his “special military operation” five weeks ago, to “de-Nazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine, President Putin remains an enigma. …

Trending UN News: Week Ending Feb. 11

An assassination attempt on Libya’s interim prime minister; investigating the UN’s climate finance apparatus; the Guernica tapestry returns to the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered …

James Kariuki

Trending UN News: Week Ending Jan. 28

A coup in West Africa; a recap of Biden’s first year at the UN; a US-Russia showdown coming to the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered …

Biden’s First Year at the United Nations

President Joe Biden has brought back an era of diplomatic normalcy to the United Nations in his first year in office. After the often-raucous and unpredictable four years of the Trump administration’s relations with the UN, Biden and his administration …

US President Joseph Biden at the United Nations

In Biden’s UN Debut as President, He Says America Is Ready for Diplomacy

Joe Biden, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21 for the first time as president of the United States, did not say again to the world that America was back. His message was that it never left …

Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives at a UN press conference

#UNGA76 Vaccination Rules; Gabon Peacekeepers Ousted; Macron Drops Out of UN Debate

Vaccine-policy confusion as delegates arrive for UNGA; Gabon’s troops repatriated from a United Nations peacekeeping mission; President Macron of France won’t participate in the UN high-level debate. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the …

The Mess in Afghanistan Weakens Biden’s Push for Renewed US Leadership

The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has weakened the Biden administration’s campaign to restore multilateralism as the touchstone of United States foreign policy, eroding international support for US global leadership. Incidentally, Biden also came out sounding at times a lot more …

What to Expect From This Year’s UN General Assembly, So Far

This year’s United Nations General Assembly could make or break the future of in-person meetings at the gathering in New York City. After a year of carefully negotiating, adapting and crafting health guidelines, UNGA organizers are hoping to avoid a …

Unicef’s Next Boss Should Be an Internationalist and a Development Pro

Jockeying for Unicef’s next executive director is well underway, after the July 13 announcement by its current head, Henrietta Fore, that she is leaving before the year’s end. She is going because of a family health emergency and well before …

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Turnabout in US Foreign Policy Puts UN in the Spotlight

After four years of wandering lost in the desert, diplomacy is finding its way back to Washington. With Joe Biden in the Oval Office, “America First” is out and “multilateralism,” “cooperation” and “alliance” are no longer dirty words. Washington is …

A Mideast Cease-Fire; Myanmar Kills Its Own People; German Women Struggle in Politics

Girls at a gated UN school in Gaza being used as a shelter amid the bombing by Israel in its fight against Hamas’s rocket fire. Thousands of families in Gaza have fled their homes since the conflict began on May …

UN Security Council Members Say to Israel and Hamas: Stop Killing Children

Across seven straight days of sudden, staggering violence between Israel and Hamas and rising death tolls of civilians, all 15 members of the Security Council aired their views publicly at the United Nations on Sunday, after the Council held two …

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