Vol 46 No 11 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Watch this space 27th May 2005 We hear Jan Pronk, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Sudan since June, seeks another job. The Netherlands' former International Development Minister...
Vol 45 No 18 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Forty days 10th September 2004 The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own government (...
Vol 45 No 18 | UNITED NATIONSWORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Rude health 10th September 2004 The election of Angola's Dr. Luís Gomes Sambo as Africa Director of the United Nations' World Health Organisation, with 32 votes to seven for Burundi's Déogratias Bar...
Vol 45 No 15 | UNITED NATIONS Investigation 21st July 2004 News that a complaint of sexual harassment against the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, has been dismissed has emerged as oddly as the story of the complain...
Vol 45 No 14 | SUDANUNITED STATESUNITED NATIONS Smiles and shadows 9th July 2004 With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. The United States Secretary...
Vol 45 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIREUNITED NATIONS Tinkering with trouble 25th June 2004 The international community seems powerless to prevent the steady worsening of the crisis (AC Vol 45 No 11). A United Nations Security Council mission arrived on 22 June and the UN...
Vol 44 No 13 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONS Breaching the peace 27th June 2003 There is growing acrimony over the management of the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa. The test case is Congo-Kinshasa where UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's speci...
Vol 44 No 8 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Licence to kill 18th April 2003 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has given the National Islamic Front government a free hand to pursue its policy of human rights violations. By refusing to renew the ...
Vol 42 No 13 | UNITED NATIONS Refugee voices 29th June 2001 'Don't you know what they've done in Burundi? They have burnt down the bridges of tomorrow.' Ethiopia, Liberia, Somalia... The litany is long. 'Freedom Soldiers' is the song; 'Buil...
Vol 41 No 6 | ANGOLAUNITED NATIONS Name and shame 17th March 2000 The United Nations' latest exercise in naming and shaming sanctions-busters may see the international isolation of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré and Togo's Presid...