United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Addresses Opening of 2023 SDG Summit at UN General Assembly in New York Sept. 18, 2023. (UN Photo Cia Pak) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – World leaders converged on New
UN MINUSMA Peacekeeping operation in Africa / (credit: un.org) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN is preparing for an “unprecedented” withdrawal of some 12,947 peacekeeping troops in violence-ridden Mali. In June, the military junta in the
By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary General António Guterres Monday called for an “immediate” ceasefire to the conflict in Northeast African nation Sudan that has seen nearly 200 people killed. Rival armed forces were locked in a
Hundreds of residents have been killed and thousands of others forced from their homes amid a surge in violence fueled by heavily armed gangs in Haiti capital city Port-au-Prince (Credit: news.un.org) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Haiti has
Flaming tires seen early on February 11, 2019, in the streets of Hinche in the center of Haiti. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday said he remains gravely
Western nations have yet to provide the African continent with a single vaccine dose to combat the monkeypox virus, according to African health officials (Credit: Wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – While a vaccine is readily available in the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Two UN peacekeepers from Egypt were killed Tuesday when their armoured vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device some 60 kilometres northeast of Gao in Mali. Another nine Egyptian blue helmets were also
United Nations MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma, North Kivu province, DR Congo October 2017. (Photo MONUSCO/Force) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Secretary General of the UN supports the decision of leaders of
(Credit: MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic) UN peacekeepers on patrol in Kidal, Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Mali remains locked in a dangerous, “endless cycle of instability” amid a military coup, delay of return to civilian rule, on-going extremist attacks,
UN Photo / United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (file photo). By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned an attack on a school in Bilohorivka, eastern Ukraine, where many people were sheltering from the