DRC2025United NationsUN peacekeeping missions have betrayed their humanitarian mandate to become the armed enforcers of foreign resource extractionBehind the veneer of impartiality, blue helmets in the DRC and Haiti have enabled the plunder of cobalt and gold while inflicting cholera and abuse on the populations they claim to save. 2023Drc'24 Years of Missed Opportunities': How the UN Failed to Secure Peace in the DRCAs the UN's longest-standing peacekeeping mission faces a turbulent exit from the Democratic Republic of Congo, what were its critical failings, and what can the UN learn from them?
United NationsUN peacekeeping missions have betrayed their humanitarian mandate to become the armed enforcers of foreign resource extractionBehind the veneer of impartiality, blue helmets in the DRC and Haiti have enabled the plunder of cobalt and gold while inflicting cholera and abuse on the populations they claim to save.
Drc'24 Years of Missed Opportunities': How the UN Failed to Secure Peace in the DRCAs the UN's longest-standing peacekeeping mission faces a turbulent exit from the Democratic Republic of Congo, what were its critical failings, and what can the UN learn from them?