Clair MacDougall

Oct 2, 2024 | passblue.com | Clair MacDougall

Burkina Faso’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré criticized the United Nations for its “impotence” amid global threats to peace and security; countries who see themselves as “masters of the world”; critics of Burkina’s military; and, finally, the government of Ukraine, whom it accused of engaging in “terrorism” against Mali, another Sahelian country in West Africa. Traoré’s speech on Sept.

Oct 1, 2024 | passblue.com | Clair MacDougall

Burkina Faso’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré criticized the United Nations for its “impotence” amid global threats to peace and security; countries who see themselves as “masters of the world”; critics of Burkina’s military; and, finally, the government of Ukraine, whom it accused of engaging in “terrorism” against Mali, another Sahelian country in West Africa. Traoré’s speech on Sept.

Jun 13, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Clair MacDougall

The snake refused to slither down the marble staircase and instead disappeared into a crook underneath it. The cameras stopped rolling. The medicine man, to whom the thick serpent belonged, broke into a sweat: It was the final night of shooting on set at a large house on the outskirts of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, and the snake needed to perform. A scrum of actors and technicians joined the medicine man in his attempt to extract the animal.

May 31, 2024 | passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dan Becker |Clair MacDougall |Maggie Dwyer |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss

Welcome to This Week @UN: Peacekeeping; P5 veto; decriminalizing sex work. Plus: Cyprus; Gaza; unemployment; Iran; Iraq; Trump. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.* Our #1 story this week: Not So Fast: Is the P5 Veto Truly Impervious? * #1 for the month: Summit of the Future: A Historical Pivot or Mere Footnote? * Listen up with UNSCripted, our original podcast episodes, covering Security Council presidencies plus our three-part series on the founding of the UN Charter.

May 27, 2024 | passblue.com | Clair MacDougall

MONROVIA, Liberia — African soldiers often serve on the dangerous frontlines of international attempts to end conflicts, and the planned deployment soon of approximately 1,000 Kenyan police officers to Haiti is no exception. Though the use of the Kenyan-led multinational security force, which has been delayed over logistical issues, is not a United Nations peacekeeping mission, the Security Council authorized it and approved Kenya’s role.