Last week the UN Security Council held its first debate on security sector reform (SSR) since 2007, and member states noted that the bulk of the international community’s assistance on SSR is directed to countries in Africa. Out of 11 UN missions mandated with SSR, 10 are in Africa.
Author: Arthur Boutellis
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Uruguayan peacekeepers could have done without the publicity of the last couple of weeks following the alleged sexual assault of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan members of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. The subsequent protests by hundreds of Haitians against MINUSTAH, coinciding with the release of the movie “The Whistleblower” in New York, […]
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The Libyan crisis has affected many on the African continent through the loss of remittances from the estimated two million African workers in Libya and through the freezing of Libyan assets under UN Security Council Resolution 1970 of February 26, 2011.The fall of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi raises the question: What will happen to […]
