ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Farewell to arms? UN peacekeeping at 75
From first mission in 1948 along Israel’s border to missions to Sudan, funding is a conundrum amid successes
08 May 2023 - 05:00
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of UN peacekeeping. The first mission in 1948 deployed military observers to monitor the ceasefire along Israel’s border after conflict with its neighbours at its birth.
Another UN operation a year later observed the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir and Jammu, while a third, in 1958, monitored military movements into Lebanon. Peacekeepers were also deployed to separate Egyptian and Israeli forces in the Sinai in 1956 and 1974. ..
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