Victor Angelo

One of my friends called my attention to the recent attacks against international organisations in Afghanistan. In both cases –Internation...

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...

I participated in a discussion about financing development co-operation this morning. Friends of Europe, an NGO close to the European Comm...

I spent the last couple of days in Lisbon. I had been invited to go back to Portugal to deliver a lecture about the logistics of aid proje...

Dilma Roussef, the President of Brazil, is back in Africa, to attend the AU Summit. This is her third visit to the Continent this year. ...

Today is Africa’s Day! This blog wants to associate itself to the celebrations. Having spent 29 years working in many corners of Africa, I...

Riots for five consecutive nights in Stockholm, Sweden, are raising many question marks about the so-called Nordic social model. This is n...

Rio de Janeiro is today a much safer place than in the past. The city and state authorities have invested heavily of public security: pol...

Back home, after a three-week trek across Brazil. I should actually say, after visiting a couple of places because the country is so vast...