President of Botswana Ian Khama delivered his final State of the Nation address Monday, as he prepares for the end of his term and the transition to Vice President Mokgweetsi E. K. Masisi’s tenure. In the address, Khama reiterated “Botswana’s strong support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is the…
The United Nations (UN) envoy for the Central Africa region warned the UN Security Council on Tuesday not to underestimate the continued threat of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), particularly as troop withdrawals create space for potential further instability. François Loucény Fall, the Special Representative and head of the UN…
Eritrea says that Foreign Minister Osman Saleh’s visit to China has yielded a promise to again plead its case on Western sanctions, the government said Thursday. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi “reaffirmed that his country will raise the issue of sanctions imposed on Eritrea” in the United Nations, the Eritrean…
Burundi Vice President Gaston Sindimwo said Thursday that his government plans to ask the United Nations to remove all its personnel and replace them because the UN and outsiders are “the source of all the problems Burundi is going through.” Sindimwo, speaking at a site for internally displaced Tutsis in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a strong rebuke to the United States Wednesday night, following a major speech by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the Israeli-Palestinian peace and last week’s United Nations Security Council resolution on the legality of Israeli settlement expansion. “What he did was spend…
New information is coming in from Kinshasa, where about 20 people may have been killed by security forces in the city, as the constitutional term of President Joseph Kabila of Democratic Republic of Congo expired overnight. Reuters reports that Jose Maria Aranaz, the United Nations human rights director for DR…
The United Nations Security Council said it is closely monitoring political developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and remains concerned about escalating violence and instability ahead of the December 19 election deadline. “The Security Council reiterates its call upon all political parties, their supporters and other political actors to…
At least two dozen African human rights groups and international NGOs working alongside them called Thursday for the African Union to end consideration of AU withdrawal – and a mass exodus of African nations – from International Criminal Court authority. The new appeal comes ahead of a Friday AU meeting…