SRSG Haile Menkerios said UNMIS has been making adjustments to the deployment of existing troops throughout the cease-fire zones, consistent with its mandate and with full knowledge of both parties.
One of the biggest storms in recent history pounded the Philippines today and is en route to southern China. The United States is reportedly diverting military assets to the Philippines to help with humanitarian assistance and recovery efforts.
Ban has a J'accuse! moment at the European Parliament in which he takes on the growing tide of anti-Muslim bigotry on the continent. "Europe's darkest chapters have been written in language such as this," he says.
The DRC report isn't the only UN conflict mapping report to leak recently. A controversial report on armed conflict in Afghanistan from 1978 to 2001 has resurfaced online. Here are seven things you need to know about that report.
The Council extended the mandate (14-0-1) of the Sudan Panel of Experts that monitors the targeted arms embargo and sanctions. China abstained from the vote, as it doubted the objectivity of the report of the Panel.
A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime sheds some light into the market economics that feed the $3 billion trafficking in persons industry.
David Frum suggests that having Portugal voted to the Security Council as opposed to Canada is somehow a failure of US diplomacy. This is absurd. He should blame Canada
Guest post from Harold Pollack: It’s easy to get people to pay attention and to help 33 identified people who require a single dramatic rescue. It’s much harder to get the same level of attention and action when millions of people face larger, complicated, and chronic challenges after a mass disaster.
JUBA, Sudan—Southern Sudan’s ruling party is continuing its overtures to southern military and political forces whom it angered before and during the disputed April elections process, pursuing a simple but clever strategy that the party badly needs to succeed.