The International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) conducts its 26th Annual Conference at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training (BIPSOT, close to the capital Dhaka) between 31 October and 4 November 2022. The overall conference theme in 2022 is : “Peace Operations in the...
The Cabo Delgado Region in Northern Mozambique is staring at a “large and likely long lasting” humanitarian crisis with nearly a third of his population displaced, worsening hunger and rising risk of deadly diseases reported by UNICEF on Tuesday 13th April 2021. The region has been...
In the wake of the dire humanitarian crisis exacerbated by the ongoing armed conflict in Tigray regional state, the United States has requested a meeting at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) under Any other Business (AoB), which is scheduled to take place on Thursday...
The situation in Central African Republic has been complicated for the past years. Government forces have been trying to fight militia, with the main victims of the conflict being the civilians. Thousands of people have died in the CAR since 2013 and more than a...
On the 17th April 2021, dozens of heavily armed attackers on motorbikes stormed the village of Gaigorou. As a result, at least 19 civilians were killed. The Tillaberi region is situated on the lawless “three-border” zone where the frontiers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso converge...
The Independent National Election Commission (CENI) said on Saturday 17th April 2021 that Deby won a majority in all, but one of the 51 departments announced so far, and secured a plurality in the other. The results from 61 departments are yet to be...
Seven years after the abduction of 279 girls from a government school in Northern Nigeria, authorities have failed to find a strategy to protect schoolchildren and their right to education reports a Human Rights Group. These hostages were taken on April 14th 2014 by Boko...
Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati was shot dead in Bamako on Tuesday 13th April 2021 by unidentified individuals. He was acting as the President of the Coordination of Azawad Movement (CMA) an alliance of the former Tuareg independence and Arab nationalist armed groups that fought against...
Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré now exiled in Ivory Coast will stand trial for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara a Pan-African icon during the 1987 coup in which he took power. Sankara, a Marxist, pan-African leader, was murdered after four years in...
The African Peace Support Trainers Association (APSTA) in collaboration with Peace Operations Training Institute (POTI) offers a free E-Learning on Peace Support, Security and Humanitarian Relief Operations. The courses include : An Introduction to the UN System and Its Role in International Peace and SecurityDisarmament, Demobilization,...
