UN Dispatch » Katherine Edelen

Amid similar announcements made by his European counterparts, Secretary of State John Kerry, announced that the U.S. would accept 85,000 Syrian refugees in 2016 and 100,000 by 2017.  This, no do...

https://undispatch.com/nigeria-has-deteriorated-into-a-major-humanitarian-crisis/

Water and sanitation are two sides of the same development coin. In development and UN speak, they are rarely discussed separately. These days, the UN simply uses the acronym WASH (Water, Sanitat...

https://undispatch.com/water-is-an-mdg-success-story-sanitation-is-most-certainly-not-why/

On Monday, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United States for his first Presidential visit to D.C. President Buhari’s visit comes just seven weeks after an historic electoral ...

https://undispatch.com/boko-haram-tops-the-agenda-of-nigeria-presidents-visit-to-the-white-house/

The ongoing Ebola crisis continues to grab headlines ranging from celebrating the victories of a unified global response, to condemning the World Health Organization’s institutional ills durin...

https://undispatch.com/the-former-us-aids-chief-is-now-a-top-un-tb-official-hes-come-back-to-washington-with-a-message/

We thought we had seen the last of Sepp Blatter. The notorious embattled FIFA boss who is reportedly under criminal investigation in the United States after several of his compatriots were arrest...

https://undispatch.com/can-women-solve-fifas-corruption-problem/

On Thursday, Pope Francis will deliver a highly anticipated religious letter traditionally intended for Catholic Bishops and the Church’s followers. The Pope’s message, however, is expected t...

https://undispatch.com/the-papal-encyclical-on-the-environment-will-influence-more-than-just-catholics/

Last week, with little fanfare, or media attention, the White House released its report on National Security Implications of Climate Change. The report outlines the risks and threats posed to bo...

https://undispatch.com/the-big-shift-in-us-foreign-policy-that-no-one-noticed/

On Monday, the European Commission authorized an EU naval program seeking to disrupt and destroy migrant smuggling operations and networks.  Not unexpectedly, the plan has been met with a flur...

https://undispatch.com/europe-is-totally-ignoring-the-root-causes-of-migration-across-the-mediterranean/

Over the last several weeks, headlines have documented numerous military defeats suffered by Boko Haram at the hands of the more than 8,700-strong allied forces, including reclamation of key town...

https://undispatch.com/tide-actually-turning-boko-haram/

In the wake of the horrific Garissa University attacks, which took the lives of 148 people, Kenya’s Deputy President delivered an ultimatum to the United Nations Refugee Agency: move nearly hal...

https://undispatch.com/will-kenya-shut-worlds-largest-refugee-camp/