Over the past three years, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and his counterpart at the African Union (AU) Commission, Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, have personally devoted signific…

Recent events in the border region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan have brought long-running anxiety about the potential for conflict back into sharp focus. Almost twenty years ago, then-United …

Today, February 28, 2019, is the 100th birthday of Sir Brian Urquhart, whose distinguished career at the United Nations began at its creation and lasted until the final years of the Cold War. As an ad…

Event Video:  Photos Just weeks after the signing of a new peace agreement between the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 armed groups, the top United Nations official t…

This week, Equatorial Guinea took over as chair of the United Nations Security Council and began its tenure by hosting a high-level debate on the use and impact of mercenaries, a topic of particular r…

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/…