For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the
“blue line” or the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel, and visited neighbourhoods in the area, checking in with local families and making sure they were safe.
Thirty years ago, the
Earth Summit, which took place in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, paved the way for the establishment of three major conventions on the environment - specifically on biodiversity, climate change and desertification.