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The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali is On the Front Lines of Fighting Terrorist Groups

The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali puts UN peacekeepers directly in conflict with violent extremism. It is the deadliest peacekeeping mission in the world. Recent events sh0w why. On January 21, ten peacekeepers were killed and 25 more wounded...

Captain Joseph Eranga, a Nigerian peacekeeper serving with UNMIL, holds a child during an evening patrol in Monrovia. UN Photo/Albert González Farran 12 January 2018 Monrovia, Liberia

It is the 70th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping. Here’s How Peacekeeping Has Evolved

Peacekeeping is not in the Charter of the United Nations. When negotiators hammered out the details of the San Francisco Treaty in 1945, they created a new model for international political cooperation. But that model excluded, at the time, a...

An historic first for the International Criminal Court

Yesterday saw the trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi at the International Criminal Court for the intentional destruction of world heritage shrines in Timbuktu during the 2012 occupation of the city by the Islamic rebel group Ansar Dine. The trial marks...

In Mali, peacekeepers have become the target of an insurgency. This is unprecedented

In Mali, it is UN peacekeepers — and not the civilians they are meant to protect — who have become the primary targets of a growing insurgency. Since the mission deployed in 2013, there have been 86 fatalities, making it...

A Landmark Moment for the ICC: The War Crime of Cultural Destruction

On March 1 a man named Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi made an appearance at the International Criminal court in the Hague, and in so doing earned the dubious distinction of being the first person to ever appear at the ICC for the crime of...

Mali Attacks–What We Know So Far

Gunmen stormed an upscale hotel in Bamako, Mali today, apparently killing several people and taking hostages. The situation is still fluid, but here is what we know. The Target The Radisson Blu hotel is the kind of upscale hotel that...

Is Mali’s Peace Deal Dead?

Mali's peace agreement, signed with great fanfare a couple of months ago, is being tested. Will it survive?

UNESCO Rebuilt These Ancient Mausoleums in Timbuktu that Were Destroyed By Religious Extremists

A recent surge in violence in northern Mali that saw an attack on a MINUSMA convoy kill six Burkinabe peacekeepers and forced hundreds of Malians to seek refuge in neighboring Mauritania has served as a disquieting reminder that much work remains...

In Breakthrough for Peace, Malian Rebels Sign Accord

A comprehensive peace agreement sets the stage for reconciliation in Mali.

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