Peacekeeping News Articles

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan is the newest nation in the world and it is facing "a number of challenges" as it struggles to find its footing in the midst of road blocks that need to be removed to achieve peace and security, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous told Xinhua in a recent interview.

FAUCHÉ, Haiti — A woman who lost just about everything now gives her children coffee for meals because it quiets their stomachs a bit. Another despondent mother relives the awful moment when her 18-month-old baby was swept from her arms by a flash flood. The bodies of a family of five killed in a mudslide still sit in a morgue unclaimed.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The victims were rounded up at their homes, at work or while out having drinks. Taken without explanation to military camps overflowing with prisoners, they were deprived of food and beaten routinely with belts, clubs and guns and released only after their families paid substantial sums of money.

PARIS — France announced Tuesday that it was recognizing the newly formed Syrian rebel coalition and would consider arming the group, seeking to inject momentum into a broad Western and Arab effort to build a viable and effective opposition that would hasten the end of a stalemated civil war that has destabilized the Middle East.