Today, the Security Council voted unanimously admit the Republic of South Sudan to the United Nations. Tomorrow, the General Assembly will likely follow making it the 193rd UN member state.
Nearly 40,000 people were violently uprooted from a contested region of Sudan last week. What can the international community do to better protect civilians in harms way?
At a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lisbon, Ban Ki Moon fielded a question about whether or not NATO countries might intervene in South Sudan if things turned for the worse.
UNMIS can help facilitate the implementation of these new agreements. But peacekeepers cannot be expected to prevent the outbreak of conflict between two countries that are determined to go to war.
Ahmad Haroun is someone that those who write about politics and foreign policy should get to know a bit better. He ought to be at least as infamous as Mladic or Eichmann.
