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Article: Intervention in African conflicts by the United Nations Security Council.
- Article from:
- Strategic Review for Southern Africa
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
- Author:
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ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the African conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Somalia, Burundi and Ethiopia-Eritrea. Intervention by the United Nations Security Council to restore or maintain peace and security is examined. The intervention in, or response of the Security Council to conflicts in Africa is assessed against the background of its Charter-based mandate and an emerging international responsibility to protect vulnerable populations against conflict where states and their governments are unable to do so. In so doing, the perception that Africa has been and remains marginalised by the ...