Ghana’s Police Service has served notice it will dismiss any of its personnel accused of sexual exploitation in South Sudan if found guilty after investigations. The Service says it has written to the UN to grant it permission to send a team from Ghana to South Sudan to have firsthand information about the sexual scandal … Read more
Thouk Reath, 19, was recovering from a leg amputation after being shot in fighting in northeastern South Sudan when the clinic he was in had to be evacuated because of approaching gunfire. Patients and doctors at the clinic in the town of Maiwut risked being caught up in an army offensive closing in on the … Read more
France and the United States have reached agreement on a draft UN resolution that would pave the way for the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists in the Sahel region, diplomats said Tuesday. A vote at the UN Security Council could take place as early as Wednesday on the draft resolution … Read more
The members of the United Nations Security Council say they condemn “in the strongest terms” the terrorist attack of 14 June 2017 which targeted civilians in Mogadishu, killed tens of people and injured many more. The members of the Security Council expressed their deep sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims including members … Read more
North Korea on Thursday accused the South of unleashing more than 450 machine gun rounds at a flock of birds in an “armed provocation” at the tense Demilitarized Zone, after Seoul’s forces fired warning shots at an object flying over the border. Seoul military officials initially suggested the item was a drone from North following … Read more
North Korea on Friday accused the United States of using threats and intimidation to force countries at the United Nations to implement sanctions, describing the drive as “hysteric madness.” The North Korean mission at the United Nations urged UN member-states to “reconsider” applying sanctions adopted by the Security Council, arguing that their legality was questionable. … Read more
A UN peacekeeper was killed and four others were missing following an attack on their convoy in the southeast of Central African Republic, the UN said Tuesday. The convoy was attacked on Monday evening near Yogofongo village, more than 470 kilometres (290 miles) east of the capital Bangui, close to the border with Democratic Republic … Read more
The United Nations on Thursday proposed a series of new steps aimed at stamping out sex abuse by peacekeepers as a report showed an increase in abuse allegations. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an annual report that there had been a total of 145 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse involving troops and civilians … Read more
Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a UN resolution backed by Western powers that would have imposed sanctions on Syria over chemical weapons use. The measure drafted by Britain, France and the United States won nine votes in favor at the Security Council while three countries opposed it — China, Russia and Bolivia. Kazakhstan, Ethiopia … Read more
Russia is carrying out a sustained campaign of cyber attacks targeting democracy and critical infrastructure in the West, UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has warned. Moscow was “weaponising misinformation” in a bid to expand its influence and destabilise Western governments and weaken Nato, he said. Vladimir Putin had chosen to become a “strategic competitor” … Read more
North Korea warned of “tougher countermeasures for self-defence” after the UN Security Council unanimously imposed its strongest-ever sanctions on Pyongyang. The country’s foreign ministry issued a statement on Thursday calling the UNSC’s move “another excess of authority and violation of the DPRK’s sovereignty”, referring to its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “Many … Read more
The United Nations is requesting additional 170 police peacekeepers from Ghana to be deployed in South Sudan in January, 2017. Ghana currently has a 440 police peacekeeping force in South Sudan, the largest from any member nation in the world. The country joined the police peacekeeping operations in August 2015 after the armoured car squadron … Read more
International relations expert Dr Vladmir Antwi-Danso has said President John Mahama’s call for equitable representation on the UN Security Council will yield no positive outcome. President Mahama, who made the appeal when he addressed the General Assembly at the ongoing UN summit on Wednesday, September 21, said: “The United Nation’s Security Council remains an important … Read more
In this 21st century, Africa does not have dynamic leaders that can meaningfully challenge adverse world policies affecting its people on the continent or in the diaspora. There is no equivalence of the 1960s and the ’70s who led most of the African states out of the clutches of imperialism and bondage into independence. The … Read more