A spate of attacks in rural northeastern Mozambique has set the region on edge. Beheadings, IED attacks, and a growing economic marginalization of a muslim community in a region soon to be flooded with oil wealth has combined into the early signs of a major insurgency. ADR’s JOHN STUPART speaks with GABRIELLE REID, sub-Saharan African […]
As one of the higher priorities for MONUSCO peacekeepers in the DRC, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have a higher profile in the conflict than they deserve. Richard Stupart talks to Risk Advisory Group’s Jesper Cullen to sort fact from fiction about the group.
Rwandan convoy in the road to Juba in 2014. RICHARD STUPART/ADR As reports of heavy weapons fire in Juba continue to arrive, RICHARD STUPART speaks to IOM project development officer Katy Snowball, currently in Juba, in an effort to work out the details of what’s been happening over the last few days. Any transcription errors are […]
As reports of heavy weapons fire in Juba come in over the weekend, RICHARD STUPART spoke to Dr Lual Deng, currently in Juba, in an effort to work out the details of what's been happening over the last three days.
In part II of the series, Richard talks to Klem Ryan, a then-senior member of UNMISS, about how the protection of civilian sites were seen from the UN's perspective.
Richard Stupart talks to the author of an IOM report on the challenges of civilian protection in South Sudan, and the future of the 'PoC' site model.
The new commander of the United Nations' mission in the DRC, MONUSCO, has been announced. RICHARD STUPART talks to the new commander of the UN's largest peacekeeping force, LT GEN. DERRICK MGWEBI, about his hopes for the mission.
The signing of a peace agreement in South Sudan may mean an end to almost two years of war, but it's still too soon for optimism.
John Stupart, Conway Waddington and Darren Olivier sit down to separate fact from fiction on the story of the South African personnel in northern Nigeria.