Victor Angelo

Peacekeeping missions and diamonds Victor Ângelo   This week, for not very noble reasons, the United Nations peace operations were in ...

The people of the Central African Republic are tired of conflict. They have shown it a few days ago when they voted in the second round of...

The visit of Pope Francis to Bangui should be highly commended. He took the right decision, notwithstanding all the advice he got, from di...

There are so many new headlines from Gaza to Ukraine, from the planes that crash here and there, and then the Summer recess, that we just ...

The Football World Cup started today in São Paulo. The TV screens will be full of soccer news during the next few weeks. At a time when th...

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 ...

The same day I had a discussion about the frustratingly slow and very incomplete deployment of the UN peacekeeping operation in Mali (MINUS...

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...

I had a long discussion today about the current impact of the UN missions on peace and security. It all started with a silent crisis, Guin...

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...

Since Saturday, two days ago, ten flights have taken place between Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, and N´Djaména, the...

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...