Dulcie Leimbach

1 week ago | passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach

South Sudan, Africa’s youngest country, is heading into the lean growing season, when hunger can peak. It is also embroiled in a nasty power brawl between its president and the vice president as fighting in the northeast escalates, driving people from their villages to survive. The country is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak in two decades while having absorbed at least a million refugees from the civil war in its northern neighbor, Sudan.

1 month ago | passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach

Vuk Jeremic, a former Serbian foreign minister, is the most prominent public official involved in a new project, DOGE-UN, tackling the “bureaucratic bloat, waste and inefficiencies.” The founder is Hugh Dugan, who was a diplomat at the United States mission to the United Nations and a former special presidential envoy for hostage affairs in the State Department.

1 month ago | passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach

One of the first things Latvian Minister of Justice Inese Libina-Egnere will tell you is that she is a lawyer and not a diplomat. For a journalist interviewing her, that is a sigh of relief. Indeed, in an interview at Latvia’s mission to the United Nations on March 11, on the second beehive day of the Commission on the Status of Women’s annual gathering a few blocks away, Libina-Egnere, 47, was frank and eager to answer questions about why she is attending the CSW, as it’s known.

1 month ago | passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach

As the American nominee for United Nations envoy remains glued to her Congressional seat, United States diplomats are carrying out Trump administration agendas at the UN. These range from exonerating Russia on its war in Ukraine and cutting language on gender and diversity in UN entities — striking at a core mantra of the organization’s “we the peoples.”Elise Stefanik, a member of the House of Representatives (R-New York), was nominated by President Donald Trump as the UN ambassador.

Jan 6, 2025 | passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach

Andrii Melnyk has been nominated as Ukraine’s new envoy to the United Nations. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the news on Dec. 20 without fanfare, as he named other candidates for ambassadorships. The same day, Melnyk, 49, responded to fresh missile attacks by Russia in Ukraine, tweeting: “You are preparing for Christmas, you are looking forward to the presents, to a festive dinner with your family, you really want to go to midnight mass.