‘Situation in Chad requires continental support’
May 10, 2021 Dr Musah
Reginal bodies in Africa have been implored to collectively assist Chad to overcome its ongoing political crisis and reach a national census for peace and stability to prevail in the North-Central African country.
According to Dr Abdel-Fatau Musah, the Director of the Western Africa Division of the United Nations (UN) Department of Political and Peace-Building Affairs and Peace Operations, the nature of the situation in the country required a continental support.
“The regional leaders have to come together and try to help them have a breakthrough and national consensus on a transition; a civilian-led one leading to fresh election”, he said at a virtual conference on the Chadian crisis on Friday.
Transitions from UN Special Political Missions to UN Country Teams
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by Agathe Sarfati
The UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) currently manages twenty-five special political missions (SPMs) that have a field presence. Nonetheless, research and guidance on UN transitions has mainly focused on peacekeeping operations. This paper takes a first step toward filling that gap by exploring transitions from SPMs to UN country teams (UNCTs).
Focusing on the programmatic and political aspects of transitions, this paper explores the particular challenges of transitioning from an SPM to a UNCT by studying the closure of four missions: the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) in 2011, the United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) in 2014, the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) in 2014, and the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) in 2020. After presenting the main characteristics of SPMs,
Emerging Lessons from Implementing Climate-Related Peace and Security Mandates
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Six of the ten largest United Nations-led peace operations in 2020 were located in countries that are the most exposed to climate change. Both UN peacekeeping operations and special political missions are increasingly mandated by the UN Security Council to consider and respond to climate-related security risks.
In response, UN peace operations have tried to more effectively respond to climate-related peace and security challenges by adapting existing approaches and exploring innovative new ways in which to operationalize these tasks. Efforts to translate these climate and environmental-related mandates into policies and practices are a work in progress, and can benefit from ongoing learning, monitoring, and adaptation. In this regard, lessons and good practices for integrating climate-related security risks into policies, analysis, activities, and reporting are beginning to emerge.
UAE pushes UN on sexual violence in conflict zones thenationalnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenationalnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NEW YORK, 16th April, 2021 (WAM) The UAE called on Member States of the UN to tackle the root causes of conflict-related sexual violence, including structural gender inequality and harmful social norms at the UN Security Council.
The UAE submitted a written statement for the Council’s annual Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict and underscored that the subject would remain a key priority during its term on the Council in 2022-2023.
The UAE outlined its own efforts, including the recent launch of its.