Led by the US, fifty countries have promised Monday to provide additional 40,000 peacekeepers, when the UN peacekeeping missions are overstretched and vulnerable. US President Barack Obama had convened on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York summit on ways to strengthen the 16 UN missions around …

Nigeria was warned Tuesday that violence could resume in the southern oil producer, exacerbating the strain on resources already stretched by Boko Haram in the north, and reduced gross income. The International Crisis Group said that the root causes of the insurgency in the Niger Delta remain strategic “largely neglected” …

Heavy fighting between militias and UN peacekeepers erupted in the Central African Republic on Tuesday as President Catherine Samba-Panza rushed at the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly in order to end days violence in which at least 37 people died. Samba-Panza, who blamed ousted President François Bozizé to …