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The Arab League calls for a United Nations peacekeeping force and international protection in the occupied Palestinian territories until a two-state solution is implemented.
2024-05-16

A Togolese peacekeeper has died after being wounded yesterday in an attack on a MINUSMA base near Douentza in Mopti, central Mali, which wounded 28 peacekeepers, according to United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.
2021-02-12

Three Ivorian UN peacekeepers are killed and six others wounded in a jihadist ambush on their vehicle in central Mali.
2021-01-13

A United Nations human rights commission in South Sudan claims a "steady process of ethnic cleansing is underway" in the war-torn nation.
2016-12-1

The United Nations announces that peacekeepers in the country will be sent home over a "lack of responsiveness" during an attack on a UN-run refugee camp last February in Malakal that killed at least 40 people.
2016-06-23

Former United Nations official and head of the UN mission for the Ebola outbreak Anthony Banbury accuses the UN of “colossal mismanagement,” saying it had failed to uphold the principles for which it was established. He cited the organization's “Orwellian admonitions and Carrollian logic” of the UN bureaucracy and minimal accountability regarding the widespread rape and sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers.
2016-03-19

UN troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo launch an offensive, shelling positions held by rebels near the eastern city of Goma.
2013-08-23

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter working for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is shot down and crashes near Likuangole in the South Sudanese state of Jonglei.
2012-12-21

South Sudan appoints Francis Deng as its first ambassador to the United Nations.
2012-09-2

The UN says 600 people have been killed in clashes in South Sudan.
2011-08-22