France ended its Operation Sangaris in the Central African Republic on October 30, almost three years after its initial deployment. This departure leaves a 13,000-strong United Nations force as the ma…

If reported plans come to fruition, China heading up the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) would represent one of its most significant overtures toward leading, rather than m…

Northeast Nigeria and the surrounding Lake Chad region face a complex humanitarian emergency due to a combination of terrorism, hunger and malnutrition, displacement, and disease. Yet the situation at…

One of several landmark decisions taken at the 27th African Union Summit held earlier this month in Kigali, Rwanda, was approval of a funding model for the new AU Peace Fund. Indeed, AU Chairperson Id…

When Khadija Hassan Zidane stood up in front of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in Dakar in October 2015 and accused Chad’s former President Hissene Habré of having raped her on four occasion…

A Brazilian congressional committee yesterday approved impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. When widespread demonstrations first erupted in Brazil in June 2013, people from all wa…

As the war in Syria enters its sixth year, a new report published in February by the Syrian Center for Policy Research offered new calculations for death tolls from the conflict: a staggering 470,000 …

Akin to its physical landscape, the political environment of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 varied greatly from country to country. On a positive note, elections in politically polarized countries such as…

Media saturation of threats to global peace and security, the environment, economy, and other sectors can often distort how we view the world. This was highlighted in a comprehensive overview of 2015 …

At the start of every month, the Global Observatory posts a list of key upcoming meetings and events that have implications for global affairs. January 1: New UN Security Council Assumes Office, Ne…