As Panama assumes the helm of the United Nations Security Council for August, its top envoy is placing maritime security ...

Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Sahel program and based in Bamako, told PassBlue: “The US seems to be ...

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 people and set development indicators back 69 years, the UN says. As of 2024 ...

Two weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the ...

Yet, the first day of the conference yielded mostly speeches in a packed session supporting the two-state path to peace with ...

The Trump administration’s reckless inclination to withdraw from United Nations institutions is damaging United States ...

IOM’s controversial hire; Gaza aid profiteer wants a UN meet-up; Trump’s Human Rights Council problem. Plus: Gaza’s deepening death spiral; US drops UNESCO; water & peace in W. Africa; Pacific ...

Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder, with Barbara Crossette, of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, Leimbach has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and ...

A Nigerian police officer demonstrating a manual search drill to locate explosive ordnance as part of IED disposal training in Borno state in the country’s northeast, the epicenter of the continuing ...

If the amendment to the International Criminal Court’s crime of aggression had been approved by the court’s members at a special session at the UN this week, it could have given the ICC jurisdiction ...

Jennifer Locetta of Florida to be alternate representative for special political affairs in the UN, with rank of ambassador, who said, in part: “If confirmed, I will assess any proposal at the ...