Tag Archives: United Nations
By Susana Edjang The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that have driven the global development agenda, since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 191 member states surprised the world by unanimously agreeing and making, … read more »
Posted in Article, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Monetary Fund, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goal, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, United Nations Millennium Declaration, World Bank
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By Eric Reeves* To understand the surging violence in Darfur over the past year, a lengthy and highly authoritative “unofficial” report covering most of 2011, from former members of the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan (Darfur), is critically important. … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Op-ed, South Sudan, Special Reports, Sudan
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Tagged Chad, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, IRIN, Khartoum, Radio Dabanga, Sudan, UNAMID, United Nations
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In the regional dispute related to the topic of the Sahara, Morocco maintains the course set by the Security Council with the primary goal of achieving a mutually acceptable political solution, and all this through negotiation. In this respect, Morocco … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Op-ed, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Human rights, Morocco, Sahara, Sahrawi people, Security Council, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, Western Sahara
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Chad was supposed to be the backbone of the African-led force in Mali. And, until now, that’s exactly what it has been, providing the only African soldiers trained and trusted for combat operations in the tricky desert war against experienced … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed
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Tagged Central African Republic, Chad, France, Idriss Déby, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, United Nations
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PRESS RELEASE NIGERIA TO ASSUME THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES Nigeria is set to assume the Presidency of the Community of Democracies for the period 2015 – 2017. Preparatory to the assumption, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Press Releases, West Africa
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Tagged Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Abuja, Community of Democracies, GoodluckJonathan, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, United Nations
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Spare Reeyot, CPJ pleads with Berhan Hailu By Getahune Bekele, South Africa Her predicament touched millions of hearts around the world in 2012 when it was established that she had a malignant tumor in her breast which prompted her lawyer … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Getahune Bekele, Op-ed
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Tagged berhanhailu, CPJ, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Reeyot, Solitary confinement, United Nations, United Nations Convention Against Torture
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By Simon Kent ,Toronto Sun TORONTO - It didn’t have to end in utter shame for the United Nations, but then old habits die hard – if you’ll pardon the pun. Exactly 19 years ago members of the rival Hutu and Tutsi … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Pan African News, Rwanda
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Tagged Hutu, Khmer Rouge, Kofi Annan, Mozambique, Rwanda, Stephen Harper, Tutsi, United Nations
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The Kinshasa government has suspended a dozen senior military officers and is interrogating suspects in connection with a mass rape incident in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN said 126 women were raped in Minova in November after Congolese … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Pan African News, Rwanda
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Tagged Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Minova, Rape, United Nations, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Mali and its international partners need to seize the moment for national dialogue to forestall renewed political and security crises. Mali: Security, Dialogue and Meaningful Reform, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the situation in Mali after … read more »
Posted in Mali, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Bamako, France, IndepthAfrica, International Crisis Group, Mali, Tuareg, Tuareg people, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
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Last Sunday, President Barack Obama marked the 19th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. The President stated that the United States, “grieves with the Rwandan people” who survived the killings. “Nineteen years ago, Rwanda was torn apart by a great … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Rwanda
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Tagged Barack Obama, genocide, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi, United Nations, United States
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By Karafillis Giannoulis Diango Sissoko, the Malian interim Prime Minister has promised that elections in Mali will take place in July. Sissoko visited Gao in Northern Mali. This was the first visit by a senior government in the region since … read more »
“On both missions I observed the complete lack of strict regulation of the arms trade, due to which both DRC and Kosovo had huge proliferation of illegal arms.” – Retired Pakistani Brigadier General Mujahid Alam By: Jennifer Fierberg Retired Pakistani … read more »
Mali Operation: Revised Approaches Alexander Mezyaev, Strategic Culture Foundation, It’s the third month since French troops entered Mali. The action entailed the involvement of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA), an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged AFISMA, African Union, Burkina Faso, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Indepth Africa Magazine, Mali, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
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Why has there been no serious UN investigation into this crime? Nineteen years ago today the Falcon 50 Jet carrying two heads of state in Central Africa was shot down by a surface to air missile. Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Burundi, Indepth Africa Magazine, Juvénal Habyarimana, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, United Nations
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(AFP) ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian court on Monday delayed again the appeal of blogger Eskinder Nega and opposition leader Andualem Arage, who were jailed last year for terror-related offences. Eskinder and Andualem were among 24 people jailed in July … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Anti-terrorism legislation, eskindernega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Freedom Now, Ginbot 7, IndepthAfrica, Prison, United Nations
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It’s not often that you think of children in Ethiopia as “privileged.” Any Canadian near a TV screen in 1984 will recall the country’s famine. They’ll remember images of emaciated children struggling for breath. Some were just hours away from … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Laos, Liberia, Millennium Development Goals, United Nations, World Health Day
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By PLOS Guest Blogger Andrew Seal and Rob Bailey discuss the limitations of data-driven humanitarian efforts, and the lessons learned from the 2011 Somalia famine. In May 2012, the UN Secretary General published a report on ‘Strengthening of the coordination … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Office of Foreign Assets Control, PATRIOT Act, Shabaab, Somalia, United Nations
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By Okoi Obono-Obla In the wake of the trial, conviction and sentence of a Nigerian, by a South African High Court, Mr. Henry Okah; one of my good friends, Sunday E. Iyamba Snr, privately asked me a question which has … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Eagle Square, Henry Okah, IndepthAfrica, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newpapers, South Africa, United Nations
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Source: UN News Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia as the new Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM), it was announced today. With about 1,200 staff at United Nations Headquarters in New York and 2,200 … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa University, Ban Ki-moon, Columbia University, Hunter College, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme, University of Rochester
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(IRIN) – Parts of southern Somalia are yet to recover from the battering they took in 2010-2011, when severe drought followed excessive rain, and now the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) says insufficient rain may fall in the … read more »
By Geletaw Zeleke The United Nations’ number one millennium development goal is eradicating extreme poverty from the face of the earth. Holding this slogan high, countries across the globe are working to get rid of poverty. Supporters of bilateral aid … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Derg, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Marc Ravalomanana, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, World Bank
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(AFP) GENEVA — The United Nations will appoint an independent expert to investigate and help improve the human rights situation in war-torn Mali, the UN Human Rights Council decided Thursday. The 47 members of the UN’s top human rights body … read more »
Human Rights Concern – Eritrea has received several disturbing reports from Libya concerning the abusive treatment of Eritrean refugees in that country: 1) 76 Eritrean refugees in Libya are being used to clear land mines in Sirte, the home town … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
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Tagged Eritrea, eritrean, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Libya, Refugee, Tripoli, United Nations
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After a decade of combat, casualties, massive displacement, persisting violence, enhanced sectarian tension and violence between Shi’ias and Sunnis, periodic suicide bombings, and autocratic governance, a negative assessment of the Iraq War as a strategic move by the United States, … read more »
This article was co-written by Christine Garcia. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has struggled to uphold the human rights of its citizens since the establishment of Belgium’s colonial authority in 1870. More than 5.8 million Congolese have died … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo
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Tagged Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, IndepthAfrica, Satellite Sentinel Project, United Nations, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States, World War II
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By Bashir Goth In its issue, 2nd -8th March 2013, The Economist magazine drew a rosy picture of Africa in a 14-page special report of what it described as “the world’s fastest growing continent,” with a cover page title “Aspiring … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabab, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mogadishu, Sierra Leone, Somali people, Somalia, United Nations, United States
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A fifth French soldier has been killed in the country’s nine-week-old military campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali, the government said on Sunday. An explosive device went off under a vehicle carrying Corporal Alexandre Van Dooren during a search for … read more »
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Major General Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam of Ethiopia as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Major General Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam is … read more »
By Mohamud Uluso, Pambazuka News The Resolution 2093 adopted by the UN Security Council on 6 March 2013 endorses the long overdue partnership mission between the Federal Government of Somalia and the International Community for the peace building and state … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged African Union, African Union Mission to Somalia, Federal Government, FederalGovernment of Somalia, IndepthAfrica, Somalia, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, United States
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By Keffyalew Gebremedhin There are many of us who strongly believe that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been a major politico-economic initiative of the post-Cold War world. With the launch in September 2000 of UN-MDG by the UN General … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Cold War, MDG, Millennium Development Goal, Millennium Development Goals, Secretary-General of the United Nations, sustainability, United Nations, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
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