(Guest Post by Samuel Maina. Samuel Maina is a Kenyan communications consultant & digital security trainer. He is the founder of Kijani Media and a blogger.)
Security Council met today in an emergency session about the MH17 disaster. The meeting offered a first glimpse of the potential diplomatic fallout of this crisis.
Who shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine? Given the technology required to strike a commercial airline flying at high altitude, we may know the answer soon enough.
But finding out who did this is only half the struggle.
Author Rebecca Hamilton did not want to call the crisis in South Sudan a “civil war”–not yet, at least. But in this clip below we discuss what it will take to bring a near and long term political solution to the desperate situation there.
South Sudan is in free fall. But things could be much, much worse if not for the presence of some 8,000 UN Peacekeepers currently deployed as part of the UN Mission in South Sudan.