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South African army chief says troops ready for Congo after learning lessons in CAR
Washington Post
South African soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the South African army as a whole is overstretched and underfunded, the army chief said Thursday.
05/16/13
UN: 3 peacekeepers abducted bewtween Israel-Syria
Miami Herald
Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday.
05/16/13
South Korea Proposes Border Meeting With North
New York Times
South Korea proposed on Tuesday to hold a border meeting with North Korea to discuss bringing finished goods and raw materials from an industrial park that the two countries jointly operated until last month.
05/14/13
To Stabilize Mali, Look to Somalia’s Lessons
Bloomberg
The United Nations Security Council has made a wise decision to create an ambitious African stabilization mission for Mali.
05/12/13
4 U.N. peacekeepers released by Syrian rebels
Los Angeles Times
Syrian rebels released four U.N. peacekeepers Sunday, five days after the Filipino troops were seized in the increasingly volatile buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
05/12/13
Congo: Pakistani UN peacekeeper killed in ambush
BBC
A Pakistani UN peacekeeper has been killed in an ambush in Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN has said
05/08/13
South Sudan Confirms Yau Yau Rebels Seized Town
Voice of America
Rebels led by David Yau Yau have seized the town of Boma in Jonglei state after two days of fighting, South Sudan Army (SPLA) officials said Wednesday.
05/08/13
DRC Abuses: UN Calls for 'Credible' Investigation
Voice of America
The United Nations has released details of what it calls horrifying abuses committed by the Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces and by the M23 rebels after heavy fighting in eastern Congo in November of last year.
05/08/13
Four UN Peacekeepers Seized in Syria
Voice of America
The United Nations says four of its peacekeepers were abducted Tuesday by armed men in the Golan Heights.
05/07/13
Four U.N. observers detained in Golan Heights
Washington Post
Syrian rebels kidnapped four United Nations peacekeepers Tuesday along the fraught cease-fire line between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights, in a replay of a similar incident in March.
05/07/13
Military push not sole way to end Congo conflict: U.N. envoy
Reuters
A military solution is not the only way to end decades of conflict in eastern Congo, the newly appointed United Nations special envoy to the region said on Tuesday
04/30/13
Sudan Rebels Expand Offensive
Voice of America
Rebels from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region attacked a city in the neighboring state of North Kordofan Saturday, bringing their fight closer to the capital.
04/27/13
South Sudan rebels: SSLA 'surrenders'
BBC
Some 3,000 fighters from one of South Sudan's biggest rebels groups, the SSLA, have handed in their weapons, officials say.
04/26/13
U.N. Votes to Send Peace Force to Mali
Wall Street Journal
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday established a 12,600-strong peacekeeping force to be deployed in areas of northern Mali, where a French military intervention has pushed back an Islamist insurgency that threatened to seize control of the West African nation.
04/25/13
UN warns of ‘troubling rise’ in violence in Afghanistan; 13 insurgents killed in east
Washington Post
The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan said civilian casualties rose nearly 30 percent in the first three months of the year
04/24/13
Israel and Palestinians Agree on U.N. Work in Jerusalem
New York Times
Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to renewed involvement by Unesco, the United Nations cultural agency, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The agreement was a small but significant breakthrough in the often highly politicized workings of the agency.
04/23/13
Syrian rebels accuse government of massacre in Damascus suburb
Washington Post
Syrian activists and rebel fighters said Monday that at least 100 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in a five-day Syrian government offensive on a predominantly Sunni area of the Damascus countryside. The death toll could be the largest from a single military campaign in nearly a year.
04/22/13
After rebels oust Central African Republic president, dozens of child soldiers patrol capital
Washington Post
As fighters in fatigues lounge in the shade of the rebel camp in the capital of Central African Republic, a boy jumps up to greet visitors with a wide toothy grin. He says he is 14 and joined the rebels three months ago.
04/22/13
Leaders to Boost Force in Central African Republic
Wall Street Journal
African leaders have resolved to quadruple the size of a regional peacekeeping force in the strife-torn Central African Republic amid intensifying violence weeks after a rebel coup.
The force, currently comprising 500 soldiers from neighboring countries, will now total 2,000, said the final communiqué from a special crisis summit in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.
04/19/13
United Nations says Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe
Reuters
Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped and murdered and cities reduced to rubble in Syria's two-year-old war that has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations said on Thursday.
04/18/13
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