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.

As the United States reintroduces travel restrictions under President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, ordinary people ...

Habitat Heights was meant to be an 8,888 housing project outside Nairobi, but it was never built. The initiative was the centerpiece of a plan by a UN agency that landed in scandal. A United States ...

Guterres arriving at a General Assembly meeting to talk about his UN80 initiative. Behind him is his deputy, Amina Mohammed, May 12, 2025. Hearing about the plan for the first time publicly, many ...

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 ...

Troops from Djibouti working for the African Union peacekeeping mission based in Somalia, known as AUSSOM, gave clothing to orphans and families in displaced persons camps and villages for Eid, the ...