Veteran envoy to head Malian mission

A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (UPI) -- U.N. spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo had reports that fighting broke out between Congolese forces and M23 rebels near Goma, the capital of North Kivu ...

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has voiced "deep concern" about the deteriorating security situation in Pibor County in Jonglei state, where rebels led by David Yau Yau are fighting the South Sudan Army ...

the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa's longest territorial dispute between Morocco and the Sahrawi Polisario ...

The United Nations Security Council has made a wise decision to create an ambitious African stabilization mission for Mali. To succeed, however, this mission will need to draw lessons from the other side of the continent, where African peacekeepers ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (Xinhua) -- The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has lodged "firm protests" to Israel about its increased violation of Lebanese air space, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Tuesday. "The UN Interim Force in ...

New Zealand should do more to support United Nations' peacekeeping missions - regardless of its bid to become a member of the organisation's Security Council. That was the opinion of some speakers at a symposium on New Zealand's security future in ...

New York, Apr 6 (IBNS) Two United Nations peacekeeping missions and the Governments of Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia on Friday agreed to mutually reinforce security along the border in light of recent attacks against neighbouring villages and towns, and to ...

Some Malians are already questioning how successful the United Nations peacekeeping mission to their country will be given its limited mandate and the volatile mix of armed groups across the north. The U.N. force is tasked with helping to restore peace after ...