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Vol 53 No 8
13th April 2012

UN clash over Beijing bullets claim

UN experts’ reports differ over Darfur arms violations

Vol 52 No 23
18th November 2011

Nigeria and South Africa stand up

This year, for the first time, Africa’s two heavyweights, Nigeria and South Africa, were on the United Nations Security Council and both wanted to make their mark. The verdict is mixed. Nigeria did well, observers say, while most prefer not to mention SA ...

Vol 50 No 24
4th December 2009

The Experts win support

Resisting pressure to overlook those breaking the arms embargo, the UNSC’s reaction to a hard-hitting investigation is suprisingly robust

Vol 49 No 23
14th November 2008

Changes ahead for UN forces

Africa's crises may prompt radical reform of the mandates and structures of peacekeeping operations

Vol 49 No 20
3rd October 2008

Financial and political chaos

As equities and corporate fortunes plummeted outside, diplomats discussed aid pledges and peackeeping

Vol 49 No 20
3rd October 2008

The Millennium stops here

The Millennium Goals remain elusive and controversial

Vol 48 No 20
5th October 2007

Debuts on First Avenue

A new guard at the UN takes over but Africa’s concerns remain peacekeeping, fairer trade and development funding

Vol 48 No 20
5th October 2007

Ban Ki-moon's people

From the start of his tenure on 1 January, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was determined to make radical changes, install his own people and stamp his own priorities - climate change and a UN peacekeeping force for Darfur - on the organisati...

Vol 48 No 20
5th October 2007

A Katsina man in New York

Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's maiden voyage to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly was choreographed by an improbable band of bankers, publishers, itinerant politicians and veteran diplomats. United States' diplomats had e...

Vol 47 No 22
3rd November 2006

Upbeat Statisticians

The world economy may be slowing, interest rates rising, commodity prices falling and political risks increasing but the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook for 2007 predicts that Africa will continue to show its strongest sustained growt...

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