Diplomacy & Crisis News

Turkey's economy is a mess, but its president won't seek an IMF loan because the conditions would mean giving up his extensive patronage network.

Taiwan beat the virus with efficient government and advanced technology—the same ingredients that power the economy.

Convaincu qu'il serait assassiné s'il rentrait dans son pays, Eldridge Cleaver vit depuis plusieurs années en exil. L'auteur d'« Un noir à l'ombre » brosse ici un portrait extrêmement violent des Etats-Unis. Mais, pas plus que le racisme des autres ne saurait constituer un alibi au racisme de chacun, (...) / États-Unis, Droit, Histoire, Droits des minorités, Police, Racisme, Société, Violence, Répression, Esclavage - 1973/01

There’s a lot more to worry about in Pyongyang than just its ruler’s health.

As cities burn during continuing protests over police violence, the police have responded with even more violence.

Germany’s reopening is working because Angela Merkel treats citizens like adults; China’s is succeeding because people see results. In India, there’s no trust—and little evidence of progress.

In mid-May, just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Yemen, funding for UNFPA’s life-saving reproductive health services dried up. The agency has been forced to suspend the provision of reproductive healthcare in 140 out of the 180 health facilities, it supports, meaning only 40 now remain.  

The White House’s official narrative about the pandemic is contradicted by the facts—and creates new obstacles to stopping the virus.

A plane chartered by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) landed at Sana’a airport on Saturday with lifesaving supplies to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in conflict-torn Yemen.  

Rioting in the aftermath of another police-inflicted death—this time in one of the most prosperous U.S. cities—reveals how little progress has been made.

The stock market is soaring, African leaders are rallying around George Floyd, and reducing the U.S. military presence abroad could boost the domestic economy.

Catastrophes like the pandemic or the president shape the past as much as the future.

In countries suffering from conflict, readjusting to life in a peaceful society is a challenge, both for former fighters and the wider community. Since the spread of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN is having to refocus many of its programmes, aimed at reducing violence in communities, and rehabilitating combatants.

Democrats and NGOs slammed the White House decision, saying the U.S. president was ceding influence to China and further undercutting the coronavirus response.

Business as usual is over in the city, whether companies like it or not.

A new report from Burkina Faso shows that rising violence is taking a toll for a generation of children.

To honour the more than 3,900 women and men who have lost their lives under the UN flag since 1948, Secretary-General António Guterres laid a wreath at the Peacekeepers’ memorial on Friday, International Day of UN Peacekeepers.

Thirty countries and numerous international partners have underlined the need to make tests, treatments and other technologies to fight COVID-19, available to people everywhere.

In highly unusual move, U.S. diplomats in Uganda and Kenya issue public pronouncements expressing distress over the death of George Floyd.

The coronavirus has swept through the top ranks, leaving Mullah Omar’s son tenuously in charge.