By Michelle Nichols A pledge by South Sudan’s government to allow the deployment of more U.N. peacekeepers and to improve access for U.N. troops already on the ground in a.
By Nick Long The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Wednesday that it could not take sole responsibility for removing 750 disarmed South Sudanese fighters.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday lifted decade-old sanctions against Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, citing a successful presidential election last year and its progress in tackling.
Addis Ababa August 10/02016 Ethiopia and Canada will see increase in their exchanges in fields of peacekeeping and security, according to Canadian Minister of Defense, Harjit Singh Sajjan. The Minister.
Talks to secure a lasting ceasefire in Sudan’s three war-ravaged regions began on Tuesday, a day after an opposition coalition signed on to a roadmap for ending hostilities and achieving.
The United Nations has extended its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan until August 12, amid increasing reports of renewed violence in the country’s southern states. The mandate for the U.N..
“You’ll all be able to go home soon. Boko Haram is nearly finished,” Niger’s Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum told a crowd of refugees seated quietly on dusty, sun-baked flats. His.
The African Union has backed a request for African troops with a robust mandate to reinforce U.N. peacekeepers in South Sudan. The AU summit meeting in Rwanda’s capital approved the.
France will end a three-year military peacekeeping operation in Central African Republic in October, François Hollande has said, although security remains volatile.
The United Nations is ready to work with east African bloc IGAD to refine the group’s proposal for an intervention force within the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, U.N..
