UN-African Union collaboration a must in dealing with shifting conflict landscape

Working through the established mechanisms of the African Governance Architecture and the African Peace and Security Architecture, the full range of responses to conflict can be effectively supported and strengthened By George Swarei Mr Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres  to the AU told the security Council  in New York that the…

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DR Congo: UN South African Peacekeepers Suspended Over Serious Misconduct

There is also evidence indicating a serious failure in the exercise of command and control by senior military officials belonging to that same contingent.”  Stephane Dujarric UN Spokesperson By George Swarei The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, has suspended some of its peacekeepers following reports of serious misconduct.  In  a…

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