African Nations Participate in Missions On and Off the Continent Africa has been a major contributor and a major recipient of…
Year: 2015
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Westgate Shopping Mall was a symbol of Kenya’s growing well-heeled middle class: a vast market crammed with flat-screen…
Militaries Mobilize Against a New Enemy Soldiers, police and civilians join forces to halt the spread of one of earth’s deadliest diseases. Two-year-old…
A Ugandan General Leads The African Union Mission To Confront The Deadly Virus Maj. Gen. Julius Oketta of Uganda spoke…
Mediation strategies can help end conflict and lay a foundation for lasting peace Nations trying to prevent or defuse conflict are experimenting…
Sophisticated equipment becomes more affordable and serves as a force multiplier in peacekeeping With unmanned aircraft changing the dynamics of warfare,…
After a series of crises, the African Union creates a new rapid-response mechanism for military intervention In October 2014, Mali’s Foreign…
Efforts are Underway in Somalia and Elsewhere to Protect Civilians in Peacekeeping Missions As African Union forces tried to take…
It’s danced to Tchaikovsky’s famous melody, but it’s not your traditional Christmas Nutcracker: South Africa’s Joburg Ballet has set the…
Zimbabwe’s cricket team beat Australia for the first time in 31 years on August 31, 2014, as Captain Elton Chigumbura…