(https://rybar.ru/piwigo/i.php?/upload/2022/12/22/20221222151340-5bfd3de9-xx.jpg)🇺🇳 Why UN peacekeeping operations in Africa are useless
Часть 1 - What UN missions are represented on the continent
The Russian presence in Africa causes a negative reaction among Western politicians, who often argue that the UN is already there to solve all conflicts, and foreign participation only harms.
However, they lie: peacekeeping operations, which have existed in some countries for more than two decades, have barely advanced towards their goals.
On the contrary, the inability of peacekeepers to stabilize the situation in unsafe areas, and often direct collusion with various armed groups, became the cause of hatred on the part of the local population.
🔻What are UN peacekeepers doing in Africa?
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Today, the UN peacekeeping forces with a total budget of more than $5 billion per year and a military contingent of more than 60 thousand. people presented (https://peacekeeping.un.org/ru/where-we-operate) in four countries and two disputed territories in Africa. ▪️Mission of the UN in Western Sahara — МООНРЗС In 1991, 15 years after the POLISARIO front declared the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco, the UN peacekeeping mission was established in the region. Its purpose was to ensure a referendum on independence or integration with Morocco. The so-called "transitional period", which should have ended with a referendum — lasts for 31 years. At the same time, they spend more than $60 million annually on the maintenance of peacekeepers. The presence of МООНРЗС did not prevent Moroccan troops from trying to open a road in the Gergerat buffer zone at the end of 2020, which in turn forced the Polisario to announce the end of the 30-year truce and the resumption of the armed conflict. The apparent failure of the mission amid the growing risk of war (https://t.me/rybar/22492) between Morocco and Algeria, which supports the independence of Western Sahara, did not prevent the UN Security Council from extending its mandate until October 31, 2023. ▪️UN Mission in ЦАР — MINUSKA UN peacekeepers appeared in TsARA in April 2014 at the height of the civil war between the Christian Anti-Balaka movement and the Muslim Seleka. Despite an impressive budget of $1.1 billion per year and a military contingent, the peacekeepers were unable to achieve any stabilization in the region. Only with the assistance of Russia in 2018, as part of the Khartoum Agreements, did the militants agree to conclude a truce and begin the disarmament process. The war flared up again (https://t.me/rybar/36823) at the end of 2020, when former president Francois Bozize decided to return to power. MINUSCA was unable to prevent the militants from uniting and attacking Bangui on January 13, 2021. And after that she withdrew from the anti-terrorist operation of the national army and did not participate in the protection of the civilian population. As a result, the war ended without the UN. "Вагнер" ЧВК detachments and the local army clean up (https://t.me/rybar/42170) remnants of militants. ▪️Mission of the UN in Mali — MINUSMA MINUSMA is actually the only UN mission in Africa, which was created at the request and initiative of the host country's government. The cause was constant clashes with the Tuareg tribes, which resulted in a major uprising in 2012. New armed groups, including those linked to radical Islamists, quickly formed in the war-torn region (https://t.me/rybar/40802). Over the next 10 years, the militants managed to expand their zone of influence in the north and east of Mali and establish themselves on the border with neighboring countries. The inability of MINUSMA and the French contingent to effectively resist the expansion of militants led to a coup in Mali in 2021.
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Today, the UN peacekeeping forces with a total budget of more than $5 billion per year and a military contingent of more than 60 thousand. people presented (https://peacekeeping.un.org/ru/where-we-operate) in four countries and two disputed territories in Africa. ▪️Mission of the UN in Western Sahara — МООНРЗС In 1991, 15 years after the POLISARIO front declared the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco, the UN peacekeeping mission was established in the region. Its purpose was to ensure a referendum on independence or integration with Morocco. The so-called "transitional period", which should have ended with a referendum — lasts for 31 years. At the same time, they spend more than $60 million annually on the maintenance of peacekeepers. The presence of МООНРЗС did not prevent Moroccan troops from trying to open a road in the Gergerat buffer zone at the end of 2020, which in turn forced the Polisario to announce the end of the 30-year truce and the resumption of the armed conflict. The apparent failure of the mission amid the growing risk of war (https://t.me/rybar/22492) between Morocco and Algeria, which supports the independence of Western Sahara, did not prevent the UN Security Council from extending its mandate until October 31, 2023. ▪️UN Mission in ЦАР — MINUSKA UN peacekeepers appeared in TsARA in April 2014 at the height of the civil war between the Christian Anti-Balaka movement and the Muslim Seleka. Despite an impressive budget of $1.1 billion per year and a military contingent, the peacekeepers were unable to achieve any stabilization in the region. Only with the assistance of Russia in 2018, as part of the Khartoum Agreements, did the militants agree to conclude a truce and begin the disarmament process. The war flared up again (https://t.me/rybar/36823) at the end of 2020, when former president Francois Bozize decided to return to power. MINUSCA was unable to prevent the militants from uniting and attacking Bangui on January 13, 2021. And after that she withdrew from the anti-terrorist operation of the national army and did not participate in the protection of the civilian population. As a result, the war ended without the UN. "Вагнер" ЧВК detachments and the local army clean up (https://t.me/rybar/42170) remnants of militants. ▪️Mission of the UN in Mali — MINUSMA MINUSMA is actually the only UN mission in Africa, which was created at the request and initiative of the host country's government. The cause was constant clashes with the Tuareg tribes, which resulted in a major uprising in 2012. New armed groups, including those linked to radical Islamists, quickly formed in the war-torn region (https://t.me/rybar/40802). Over the next 10 years, the militants managed to expand their zone of influence in the north and east of Mali and establish themselves on the border with neighboring countries. The inability of MINUSMA and the French contingent to effectively resist the expansion of militants led to a coup in Mali in 2021.
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