Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz of Spain has been named by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as the interim force commander in Lebanon (UNIFIL). A statement from Farhan Haq read that Saenz
MoreExpressing concern at the breakdown of the 1991 ceasefire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, the UN Security Council has extended the UN peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara region for
More120 Ethiopian peacekeepers have applied for asylum in Sudan, according to the Sudanese Commission of Refugees (COR). The COR claimed in a statement released in Khartoum that Sudan is sheltering around 80,000
MoreOfficials from Ethiopia and the United Nations discuss deployment of Ethiopian troops in peacekeeping missions

Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister and the visiting Head of the United Nations Department of Operational Support addressed Ethiopia’s involvement in UN peacekeeping deployments, notably in Abyei. Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen discussed the “good
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