Victor Angelo

  I share the frustration expressed by many regarding the outcome of the G20 just held. The final statement reiterates many of the commitmen...

Europe and Africa: a very complex relationship Victor Ângelo   The sixth summit between the European Union and the African Union start...

Artificial Intelligence translation of my opinion piece published today in the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias. Europe and Africa:...

Africa Day 2020 was ignored in Europe. The pandemic pushes everything else out of the screen. In past years, today’s celebration would be...

My friends all over Africa tell me that the pandemic is gaining ground in several countries. There are lockdowns in place in some cities....

Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission President, travelled to Addis Ababa to meet the Chairman of the African Union, Moussa F...

In the afternoon I was on the phone with a Zimbabwean friend based in Harare. We discussed the recent human rights violations and the pol...

My presentation of yesterday at the European Political Strategy Centre, a think tank directed attached to the President of the European C...

Regrettably, chaos and misery are the two words closely associated with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A good part of this endurin...

Ban Ki-moon has left the UN Secretariat building today, at the end of his second mandate. He spent the last ten years at the UN helm. ...

Just to note that today the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told African leaders that his country will commit $30 billion over the next...

South Sudan has now joined the list of the forgotten crises. The country was the darling of the international community three or four ...

I am just back from meetings at the African Union in Addis Ababa.  And I should add that I was impressed by the clarity of the message...

Burkina Faso is one of the better educated countries in West Africa. And its population is young and dynamic. There is in addition a good ...

I was in contact today with a former UN colleague who is now serving in Somalia. And I became deeply worried, as we reviewed the situation...

Omar al-Bashir is an old desert snake. He is pretty strategic and astute. And he has also been a key player against the interests of the U...

The issues of national and people´s security remain a core problem for several African States.  Boko Haram is the most visible example...

I spent the end of last week in Oslo at the invitation of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. The aim was to review their support to peace ope...

I wrote an opinion piece today to emphasize how important is for the international community to focus on the development challenges of Afr...

Thoughts on Peacekeeping within an African background Victor Ângelo 1.        Introduction On 10 April 2014 the UN Security ...