Victor Angelo

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

Yesterday I delivered a public talk on the reform on the UN peace operations. It was organised by GRIP (Group for Research and Information...

John Kerry, who was visiting Luanda today, has shown he is deeply concerned with the crisis situation in South Sudan. The civil war is goi...

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

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...

What do you know about the work of the UN Police, UNPOL? That was my question for today, at the request of a friend. And I spent part ...

Yesterday we had a discussion here in Brussels among international staff about peacekeeping.  My colleagues, who are well informed and...

France is placing undue pressure on the UN Secretariat regarding the deployment of peacekeepers to the recently approved mission in Mali. ...

We celebrate today the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. This is a core UN function and one of best known signatures of th...

Albert Gerard "Bert" Koenders has been the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cote d’Ivoire since Aug...

Mali’s internal situation continues to be very fragile. The key international partners of this country need to coordinate better among th...

Mali is still in crisis. The Northern territories are far from being secured and the political situation in the capital and throughout th...

Now that there is a proposal on the table of the UN Security Council to approve a DPKO-type follow-on force to take over from the French ...