...in Africa today, working to support sustainable peace in regions from West Africa to the Horn of Africa and from the Western Sahara to the Great Lakes While the United Nations (UN)...

...to opportunities for peace. Today the UN leads 16 peace operations, seven in Africa: Burundi, Cote da Ivoire, Liberia, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, and...

...Force. The purpose of the trip was to meet with officials of the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) about the prevention of genocide on the...

...and electoral assistance. Moreover, regional organizations such as the African Union, the European Union, NATO, ECOWAS, and others now take part in these operations. Photos courtesy...

Nevertheless, CA'te da Ivoire had been spared from the violence that ravaged neighboring countries Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. It therefore surprised many international observers...

...for operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (UNMIBH, UNMOP) and the likely reductions in force for East Timor and Sierra Leone during 2002, the Administration's FY03 budget assumptions are...

...is a West African sub-regional organization that has led peace operations in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d'Ivoire. Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre a The...

Peace operations and interventions in the Balkans (UN and NATO), East Timor (Australia and UN), Sierra Leone (UN, ECOWAS and the UK), the Democratic Republic of Congo (UN and EU),...

...challenges remain, but ongoing reforms sow hope for continued progress and indicate a willingness from UN leaders to persist in finding solutions. Photo: Special Representative of the...

...of the mid-1990s and the politics that drove them. Working Group on the UN and UN National Interests This group was co-chaired by Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Republican of...