Since 1948, more than 1,000 United Nations personnel have been killed by “malicious acts” while serving in UN peacekeeping operations, and more than 3,000 have been injured. The number of acts has spi…

In a December 1998 report to the United Nations Security Council, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan happily reflected on a crisis in Africa where the world body had done well. A UN peace…

In early November, a false rumor began circulating among Facebook and WhatsApp users in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation, MONUSCO, had pro…

Officials from Sudan, the UN, and AU during the inaugural session of peace talks between the Central African Republic government and armed groups in Khartoum, Sudan on January 24. (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/…

The recent renewal of violence in the three-year conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has killed at least 42 people and added 27,000 more to the 365,000 who remain displaced within the count…

Bags of rice being distributed at one of the camps for ex-Seleka combatants in Bangui, July 15, 2014. MINUSCA's Security Institution Unit has coordinated weekly food distribution by the International…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) is a puzzling mission. MINUSCA had starkly positive effects for its first two years of op…

Over the last week, armed skirmishes around the small city of Bossangoa in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) led to the death of up to 100 people and the destruction of a number …

Catherine Samba-Panza sits prior to her swearing-in ceremony at the National Assembly in the capital Bangui, January 23, 2014. (MINUSCA/Flickr) Renewed international attention to the situation in …

Since President Paul Biya came to power in 1982, Cameroon has been a sleepy regime with a soft and aging dictator, a nation all but forgotten in a remote corner of the African continent. This has dram…