Victor Angelo

The UN Secretary-General has just forced his Special Representative in the Central African Republic (CAR) to resign. The reason is directl...

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...

The Central African Republic has disappeared from the news. But the internal situation in the country is as chaotic and violent as it has ...

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

On this anniversary day, twenty years after the beginning of genocide in Rwanda, as we remember those terrible events and the hundreds of ...

Today Baroness Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has issued a statement on “the extremely grave s...

The decision to deploy an EU brigade to Bangui –EUFOR RCA – has now been taken. The level of ambition and the duration of this mission are...

My column of today in the Portuguese general affairs weekly magazine Visão is about the deployment of foreign troops in the Central Africa...

I spent a good deal of the day looking at the new developments in the Central Africa Republic. And I came to the conclusion that the depar...

When it comes to political decisions, the Central African Republic remains outside the main radar screens, notwithstanding all the dramati...

I spent a bit of the day on the news and comments being produced about the dramatic events in the Central African Republic (CAR). And I en...

There is increased noise about the possibility of a UN peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR). The friends of that c...

The Central African Republic (CAR) is now a failed state. The capital city, Bangui, is controlled by armed groups of uncertain origin....

During my work with President Francois Bozizé of the Central African Republic (CAR) – from 2008 to 2010 – I always felt that he was too i...

I was asked by the media a number of questions about the recent developments in the Central African Republic (CAR). I have advised them...

Jeroen Dijsselbloem might not know where Bangui is located. Most likely, he had also no idea up to recently where Nicosia is. But like th...

François Bozizé, who has been the President of the Central African Republic (CAR) for the last ten years, has now fled out of the country...

I have been in touch with Bangui throughout the day. The rebels are again on the move and very close to the capital. There have been some...