Armed Conflicts

Refugees from Boko Haram Languish in Cameroon

By Mbom Sixtus
Tears spring to Aichatou Njoya’s eyes as she recalls the day Islamic militants from Boko Haram arrived on her doorstep in Nigeria.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Heads for 50 Years of UN Failure

By Thalif Deen
Come 2017, the United Nations will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the world's longstanding unresolved political problems firmly entrenched on the UN agenda: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dating back to the Six Day War in June 1967.

Food Insecurity: An Agent for Violent Conflict

By Dominique Von Rohr
Up to two billion people live in countries affected by violence, conflict and fragility. Often, such political instability goes hand in hand with food insecurity. “Conflicts have pushed over 56 million people either into crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity”, Kimberly Flowers, Director of the Global Food Security Project, said at this years’ John McGovern Lecture held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The number continues to grow with the escalation of conflicts and violence in countries like Syria, Yemen or South Sudan.

Trump Needs Lessons in Geopolitics : Musharraf

By David White
US President-elect Donald Trump has shown he has much to learn about South Asia, Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview with IPS. But he counted on Trump having an open mind.

Pakistan and India Unlikely to Move to All-out War: Musharraf

By David White
High levels of both conventional and nuclear deterrence are likely to prevent the recent surge in clashes between India and Pakistan from escalating into all-out war, according to Pakistan’s former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf.

Civil Society On Aleppo: UN General Assembly Must Act 

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
Hundreds of civil society organisations from around the world have united to call on UN member states to step in and demand an end to unlawful attacks in Aleppo.

Pervez Musharraf Sets out ‘Higher’ Comeback Plans

By David White
Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf says he intends to make a second bid for a political comeback next year, aiming to return from self-imposed exile to forge a new party that would bridge ethnic and sectarian divides.

Rohingya Refugees Trapped in Limbo

By Mahfuzur Rahman
Amid growing persecution by Myanmar's military, thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims in its western state of Rakhine have fled their frontier villages and are languishing along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border for lack of shelter and emergency supplies.

UN Security Council Seats Taken by Arms Exporters

By Lyndal Rowlands
Nine of the world’s top ten arms exporters will sit on the UN Security Council between mid-2016 and mid-2018.

Students Under Siege as Schools Burn in India’s Troubled Kashmir

By Stella Paul
In the fading light of a November afternoon, 12-year-old Mariya Sareer bends over a textbook, trying to read as much as she can before it gets dark. It's been nearly five months since the seventh grader from Shurat, a village 70 kms south of Srinagar city, last went to school, thanks to a raging political conflict.

Children of the ‘Others’, Sons of Minor Gods

By Baher Kamal
In December 1946, “faced with the reality of millions of children suffering daily deprivation in Europe after World War II,” the General Assembly of the United Nations created the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), to mount urgent relief programmes.

This is No Way to Honour Kenya’s Contribution to Peace in South Sudan

By Ambassador Amina Mohamed
The dismissal of Lt-Gen Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki as commander of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) comes off as a knee-jerk reaction that fails to address structural limitations of the UN peacekeeping operations. Even more worrying for Kenya is that the action practically eviscerates the country’s unrivaled contribution to peace and stability in Sudan.

Rape as an Act of Genocide: From Rwanda to Iraq

By Lindah Mogeni
The governments of Rwanda and Iraq have agreed to work together to fight rape as a weapon of genocide, noting disturbing similarities between sexual violence in Iraq today to the Rwandan genocide twenty years ago.

Release of Chibok Girls Rekindles Pressure to Free Last 196

By Ini Ekott
The Nigerian military announced the rescue of a missing Chibok schoolgirl Saturday, bringing to 23 the number freed since Boko Haram seized 219 girls from a secondary school in the country’s northeast in April 2014.

Peace Fails to Bring Prosperity in Eastern Sri Lanka

By Amantha Perera
It is a Tuesday afternoon and only a handful of devotees have flocked to the Meera Grand Mosque in Katankuddi, about 300 kms east of the capital Colombo.

Beyond Calais: A Perspective on Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development

By José Graziano da Silva
Migration is part of the process of development. It is not a problem in itself, and could, in fact, offer a solution to a number of matters. Migrants can make a positive and profound contribution to the economic and social development of their countries of origin, transit and destination alike. To quote the New York Declaration, adopted at the UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants on 19 September, “migrants can help to respond to demographic trends, labour shortages and other challenges in host societies, and add fresh skills and dynamism to the latter’s economies”.

Gorbachev Appeals for Sanity, Dialogue

By John Scales Avery
President Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, has appealed to world leaders to reduce the dangerous tensions, which today threaten to plunge human civilization and the biosphere into an all-destroying nuclear war.

Negligent Central American Leaders Fuel Deepening Refugee Crisis

By Erika Guevara-Rosas
One word could undoubtedly summarize the past year with painful precision: Refugees.

Boko Haram: Recruited by Friends and Family

By Rose Delaney
A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join Islamist militant groups like Boko Haram.

Report Details UN Failings in Juba, South Sudan Violence

By Lindah Mogeni
UN peacekeepers were reportedly unable and, at times, unwilling to respond effectively to violent clashes in Juba, South Sudan in July 2016 according to a new report by the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC).

UN Unable to Fully Investigate Chemical Weapons Allegations in Sudan

By Lindah Mogeni
The UN has only limited access to Jebel Marra, the location in Sudan where Amnesty International alleges Sudanese government forces have used chemical weapons, UN Peacekeeping Chief Herve Ladsous said here Tuesday.
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