For once, both Kigali and the rebels are negotiating under genuine pressure - and that changes everything.
By Godfred Zina The ink has barely dried on the U.S.- and Qatar-brokered peace agreement for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), yet the ground...
By Gregory Simpkins When the United Nations General Assembly reconvened in September, there was a renewed call for Africa to assume at least one permanent seat...
By Sithembile Mbete Africa’s desire to be fully represented in all decision-making organs of the United Nations (UN), particularly in the security council, is informed by...
By Gregory Simpkins “The world is aflame in conflict.” How often do we hear some version of that? It is, of course, quite true, but the...
By Gregory Simpkins For the past several years, African governments and their non-African supporters have lamented the continuing exclusion of African governments from seats on international...
Caribbean National Weekly | Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is rumored to be a top contender for the United Nations Secretary-General position, with selection due in...
Guyana is seeking election as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2024-2025 term with Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Hugh...
AP | African Union (AU) chairperson Macky Sall said Tuesday that Africa “does not want to be the breeding ground of a new Cold War,” alluding...
By Gregory Simpkins Many people who are not familiar with international affairs see situations as strictly black and white; villain and victim. While there is some...
Four years into the world’s worst ever cholera epidemic, Haitians are still seeking compensation from the United Nations (UN), whose own experts have said it is...
The United Nations (UN) has a “moral responsibility” to help Haiti end a devastating cholera outbreak, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. The cholera has been...
Lawyers for the Haiti cholera victims, in a lawsuit against the United Nations have revealed that the organizations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been served with...
Nigeria has formally asked the U.N. Security Council al-Qaida sanctions committee to blacklist the Islamist militant group Boko Haram after the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls,...
Over thirty regional organizations working in the areas of water and wastewater in the Caribbean will meet in Barbados on April 28 and 29 to explore...
United Nations has agreed to support Kenya with Sh102 billion ($1.2 billion) for the development of specific areas of its economy over a period of four...
Victims of Haiti’s deadly post-earthquake cholera epidemic filed a new lawsuit Tuesday against the United Nations in US federal court, demanding compensation over the organization’s alleged...
A food crisis is looming in many parts of the Central African Republic where many villagers have lived in the bush for months to avoid marauding...
A United Nations envoy warned Wednesday that cholera deaths in Haiti will surge and spread to other countries unless more funds are found to battle the...
The M23 rebel group, blamed for the revolt in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R. Congo) over the last year and a half, has announced...
(AFP) – The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to reduce the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti which is battling a mounting controversy over a cholera...
(Reuters) – Human rights lawyers representing Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic announced on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit against the United Nations, with a...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses The UN General Assembly, September 21, 2011. PHOTO/Spencer Platt/Getty Images Seeking to build on diplomatic opportunities, U.S. President Barack Obama is...
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a “big event of grave concern” but stressed on Friday that...
By Carlos Lopes It is unquestionable that Africa is on a major ascendance path, a trend shared by the rest of the rising ‘South’. Despite the...
A Yale University report released Tuesday argues that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti should be held accountable for introducing cholera into the Caribbean nation....
The United Nations (UN) has refused, again, to countenance the claims of 5,000 cholera-affected Haitians against it. The Haitians contend that grossly inadequate sanitation at a...
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island-nation over the past...
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi – Incoming Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Kenya’s Mukhisa Kituyi is the new Secretary-General of UN Conference on...
The United Nations Organization’s efforts to tackle cholera in Haiti are “almost non-existent”, a medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres has revealed, as the world body faces...
A human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera...
Ambassador Courtney Rattray. PHOTO/JIS Ambassador Courtney Rattray has been appointed Jamaica’s new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Rattray has been serving as...
Human rights groups in Haiti are demanding the United Nations be held more accountable after a Canadian police officer who was suspected of sexually assaulting a...
For all its challenges, Haiti was free of cholera for about a century before a United Nations peacekeeping force arrived from Nepal in October 2010. Although...
Reviewed by Nahal Toosi After 2 1/2 years in Haiti, Jonathan Katz was preparing to leave the impoverished but intriguing nation in January 2010. His next...
Haiti, a member of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has been re-building since the earthquake struck on 12 January 2010.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations., Susan Rice. PHOTO/File U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is meeting with key lawmakers in what could be her final pitch for...
The Haiti government issued a warning Friday telling a band of former soldiers who have been in hiding for six months that it will not tolerate...
New evidence has emerged about the alleged role of United Nations troops in causing a cholera epidemic in Haiti. The new evidence could have serious implications...
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Susan Rice The Obama administration is rejecting a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker for the U.S. ambassador to the United...
(Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was “regrettable” but has been brought under control, the...
By Mark Weisbrot Time to Clean Up One of the UN’s Biggest Crimes The people of Haiti have had a long and arduous struggle just to...
Cholera has two faces in Haiti. Alongside the strain causing an epidemic is another that does not lead to epidemics but can cause severe symptoms. Better...
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday threatening non-military sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan if they don’t halt escalating violence on their border...
Anti-UN protests in Haiti Two years after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, a second humanitarian crisis continues to claim Haitian lives. Whereas the first crisis was a...
Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that a U.N. peacekeeper was responsible for bringing the cholera strain to Haiti but may not have known that...
South Sudan has called on the United Nations to push Sudan to free dozens of its citizens that the later was holding in slavery. Chief negotiator...
Haiti President Michel Martelly (l) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. PHOTO/File Haiti’s earthquake reconstruction efforts and its mandate are under review by the United...
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia’s seaside capital on Friday, the first visit in years by the U.N.’s top leader to a city...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday slapped additional sanctions on Eritrea for allegedly providing support to armed groups (including the al-Shabaab group) seeking to destabilize...
Haiti’s president (pictured), is moving forward with a controversial campaign pledge to restore the country’s disbanded military with an initial force of 3,500 soldiers, according to...
A Nigerian militant group has claimed responsibility after a car loaded with explosives rammed into the United Nations' building in the capital, killing about 20, a...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Rescue official: At least 7 dead in car bomb attack on UN building in Nigeria’s capital. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights...
KINSHASA, Congo — A judge in eastern Congo says he has sentenced a United Nations driver to three years in prison for attempting to traffic cassiterite,...
It’s been acknowledged that the existing partnership isn’t the best way to coordinate UN activities in the region.
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has a new member — South Sudan. The African nation, which gained independence Saturday, became the U.N.’s 193rd member by...
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council has extended the mandate of the 19,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo for a year, saying any force reduction should...
