International records / OpenAlex research

The United Nations in Africa (1)

Four African countries — Burundi and Rwanda, whose fortunes are closely linked, and Somalia and Liberia — have suffered the effects of brutal civil wars and massacres during the 1990s and through both involvement and default the United Nations has been shown up as less than effective in any of them. In Burundi, by mid-1996, there was ample and growing evidence that a genocidal explosion on a par with that which had taken place in Rwanda during 1994 was about to occur; here was a classic example of a country where a powerful case could be made for intervention in order to prevent a disaster tha…