Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

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• Spokesperson’s briefing: Guterres will convene Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders and representatives of the guarantor powers Greece, UK and Türkiye in the UN’s New York City headquarters July 16-17 ...

The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

• A Zambian peacekeeper was killed by unidentified armed men on June 20, 2025, as they attacked a patrol of Minusca.

For several months in 2021-2022, Río Negro police blocked access to the Lof Quemquemtrew community in Argentina’s Patagonia region, preventing deliveries of food and other supplies. The community was ...

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In a new project, Médecins Sans Frontières is offering cash grants to civil-society organizations in South Darfur amid Sudan’s civil war, including a school-feeding program, above, as the presence of ...

Vivian van de Perre, a deputy chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, briefed the Security Council remotely from besieged Goma dressed in protective ...

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Is the ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan Fit for Purpose? - PassBlueIn his statement, Khan failed to reference the war crimes Bensouda had identified in 2019 or the additional ones committed since that year ...