Mukesh Kapila
@mukeshkapila.bsky.social
Author and writer: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Development, War and Peace. Ex UN, WHO, Red Cross Red Crescent, UK Government. Professor Emeritus Univ of Manchester
A not very convincing defence of the UN by some vested experts in response to interesting question of what happens if UN disappeared next week. My own view is that much of UN’s intermediation & aid functions are already overtaken - with messy new & possibly better approaches messily aje.io/qnoql9
What if … the United Nations was disbanded next Friday?
Experts tell Al Jazeera what would happen if the world decided to get rid of its core institution next week.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A not very convincing defence of the UN by some vested experts in response to interesting question of what happens if UN disappeared next week. My own view is that much of UN’s intermediation & aid functions are already overtaken - with messy new & possibly better approaches messily aje.io/qnoql9
Irony in genocidal tragedy of #Darfur #Sudan is International Criminal Court‘s guilty verdict on a Janjaweed leader -forefather of RSF committing same crimes now. Hence my latest article on whether justice deters further atrocities & brings peace. READ: www.mukeshkapila.org/will-justice...
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Irony in genocidal tragedy of #Darfur #Sudan is International Criminal Court‘s guilty verdict on a Janjaweed leader -forefather of RSF committing same crimes now. Hence my latest article on whether justice deters further atrocities & brings peace. READ: www.mukeshkapila.org/will-justice...
The UK is the so-called “pen-holder” for #Sudan at the UN Security Council. In truth, the pen had long since run out of ink - and now the nib itself is broken. In all decency it should give up that role www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
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November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The UK is the so-called “pen-holder” for #Sudan at the UN Security Council. In truth, the pen had long since run out of ink - and now the nib itself is broken. In all decency it should give up that role www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How good we are at confirming and verifying once there are piles of bodies visible even from space - but not at preventing/stopping, presumably because warnings have not been “verified”! #Darfur #Sudan www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Our job is only killing' - how Sudan's brutal militia carried out a massacre in el-fasher
BBC Verify tracks how the RSF killed unarmed people in a massacre that humanitarian officials believe left 2,000 dead.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
How good we are at confirming and verifying once there are piles of bodies visible even from space - but not at preventing/stopping, presumably because warnings have not been “verified”! #Darfur #Sudan www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Quad Sudan negotiators are out to lunch. Talks of ceasefires raise cruel hopes that make matters worse. The RSF continues to butcher civilians & of course the SAF wants to recover their losses. Ceasefires always require stabilised frontlines first www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
RSF says it agrees to ceasefire in Sudan war
Paramilitary says it will accept a ceasefire proposed by the Quad mediators - the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.
www.aljazeera.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The Quad Sudan negotiators are out to lunch. Talks of ceasefires raise cruel hopes that make matters worse. The RSF continues to butcher civilians & of course the SAF wants to recover their losses. Ceasefires always require stabilised frontlines first www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
As the contours of the repeat genocidal horrors enveloping #ElFasher #Darfur #Sudan become clear, understanding how we got there is important. My long-form interview with Craig Vermay
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looks back before looking forward on what to do -urgently youtu.be/6psiEjr0ADs?...
@asiaone.bsky.social
looks back before looking forward on what to do -urgently youtu.be/6psiEjr0ADs?...
UN Highlights Escalating Humanitarian Situation in Sudan | One Voice with Craig Vermay
YouTube video by Asiaonenews
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November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As the contours of the repeat genocidal horrors enveloping #ElFasher #Darfur #Sudan become clear, understanding how we got there is important. My long-form interview with Craig Vermay
@asiaone.bsky.social
looks back before looking forward on what to do -urgently youtu.be/6psiEjr0ADs?...
@asiaone.bsky.social
looks back before looking forward on what to do -urgently youtu.be/6psiEjr0ADs?...
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"The Betrayal of #Darfur " by Lital Khaikin. Succint and somewhat carefully nuanced backstory of how #Sudan got here - the place in a special Hell made inevitable by the choices made by a lot of people, both Sudanese rulers and outside meddlers. progressive.org/latest/the-b...
The Betrayal of Darfur
Decades of broken promises paved the way for a resurgence in genocidal violence in Sudan.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"The Betrayal of #Darfur " by Lital Khaikin. Succint and somewhat carefully nuanced backstory of how #Sudan got here - the place in a special Hell made inevitable by the choices made by a lot of people, both Sudanese rulers and outside meddlers. progressive.org/latest/the-b...
Drones and dilemmas, collateral damage and coordination: Watch/listen to an intensely human conversation - perhaps an antidote for our inhuman times - with Matthias Schmale, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordination for Ukraine in latest from my Fading Causes podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSWf...
EPISODE 12: How Do We Heal the Ailing United Nations? with Matthias Schmale
YouTube video by The Fading Causes Podcast
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November 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Drones and dilemmas, collateral damage and coordination: Watch/listen to an intensely human conversation - perhaps an antidote for our inhuman times - with Matthias Schmale, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordination for Ukraine in latest from my Fading Causes podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSWf...
Whether it was the Tamil Tigers of decades ago in Sri Lanka as in this article, or the Hamas of Gaza or the Janjaweed/RSF and SAF in Darfur & Sudan - no perceived cause can justify their perverted tactics of pure evil. www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/we-...
WE ARE SORRY
Editorial
Thirty-Five Years of Silence, Thirty-Five Years of Shame
On October 30, 1990 — thirty-five years ago — the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, with we Tamils as mute spectators, committed a...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Whether it was the Tamil Tigers of decades ago in Sri Lanka as in this article, or the Hamas of Gaza or the Janjaweed/RSF and SAF in Darfur & Sudan - no perceived cause can justify their perverted tactics of pure evil. www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/we-...
Sudan expels top WFP officials With weaponisation of aid & access denial little to choose btw SAF & RSF tho RSF has the edge on the evil champions race with Rwanda style ethnic massacres in Darfur. But aid wont stop that & UN political side only makes statements www.devex.com/news/sudan-e...
Sudan expels top WFP officials amid escalating atrocities in Darfur
The move jeopardizes humanitarian operations and food assistance to millions of Sudanese already facing extreme hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the World Food Programme says.
www.devex.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Sudan expels top WFP officials With weaponisation of aid & access denial little to choose btw SAF & RSF tho RSF has the edge on the evil champions race with Rwanda style ethnic massacres in Darfur. But aid wont stop that & UN political side only makes statements www.devex.com/news/sudan-e...
No amount of humanitarian aid even if it got thru can stop massacres underway in Darfur, Sudan. Useless talk of humanitarian crisis or ceasefire (that wont happen) when need is Trump-style “massacre control" effort as immediate priority. My remarks at C4News: www.channel4.com/news/sudan-m...
Sudan: ‘Massacre actively underway’ says former UN Sudan chief
Evidence of mass killings of civilians is mounting in Sudan.
www.channel4.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
No amount of humanitarian aid even if it got thru can stop massacres underway in Darfur, Sudan. Useless talk of humanitarian crisis or ceasefire (that wont happen) when need is Trump-style “massacre control" effort as immediate priority. My remarks at C4News: www.channel4.com/news/sudan-m...
Weird dissociation feeling - my mind being stuck in bloody Sudan where all in uniform are blood sucking monsters and my body is here in Singapore consorting with soldiers who could not be more professional humanitarian. Decent dutiful soldiers do exist - tragically Africa is not blessed with them
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Weird dissociation feeling - my mind being stuck in bloody Sudan where all in uniform are blood sucking monsters and my body is here in Singapore consorting with soldiers who could not be more professional humanitarian. Decent dutiful soldiers do exist - tragically Africa is not blessed with them
interesting to be in Singapore as observer to this exercise with military and civil humanitarian capacities of friendly & rival/enemy nations across Asia coming together to practice mutual aid disaster responses. Who says multilateralism is dead? Who says UN needs to be at the centre of that?
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
interesting to be in Singapore as observer to this exercise with military and civil humanitarian capacities of friendly & rival/enemy nations across Asia coming together to practice mutual aid disaster responses. Who says multilateralism is dead? Who says UN needs to be at the centre of that?
Having been personally involved in the chaos of 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, impressed to be in the region again to see enormous progress made since then in terms of coordinated regional capacities incl civil, military, govt, corporates, for mutual help across the region for now frequent disasters
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Having been personally involved in the chaos of 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, impressed to be in the region again to see enormous progress made since then in terms of coordinated regional capacities incl civil, military, govt, corporates, for mutual help across the region for now frequent disasters
Pleased to be in Singapore for this to speak. If only we knew what the future will bring. But then, if we did, there would be no need for such events
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Pleased to be in Singapore for this to speak. If only we knew what the future will bring. But then, if we did, there would be no need for such events
For those who still get excited by this topic of the election of the UN Secretary General - explainer on how they will be anointed. The next incumbent will undoubtedly be a good person -and undoubtedly eventually disappoint us as the current one has. www.reuters.com/world/how-wi...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
For those who still get excited by this topic of the election of the UN Secretary General - explainer on how they will be anointed. The next incumbent will undoubtedly be a good person -and undoubtedly eventually disappoint us as the current one has. www.reuters.com/world/how-wi...
Are UN staff paid too much? Complicated history, comparators, excuses apart, answer is: yes.. Some belt tightening via cutting generous salaries and allowances is not too much to ask, in solidarity with the troubled impoverished people it serves. passblue.com/2025/10/21/u...
US Wants UN Salaries Cut, but D.C. Is Singing to the Wrong Choir - PassBlue
US Wants UN Salaries Cut, but D.C. Is Singing to the Wrong Choir - PassBlue
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October 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Are UN staff paid too much? Complicated history, comparators, excuses apart, answer is: yes.. Some belt tightening via cutting generous salaries and allowances is not too much to ask, in solidarity with the troubled impoverished people it serves. passblue.com/2025/10/21/u...
Only the devil asks humanity to make such decisions. as this mother had to. Clearly devil-worship is now the official religion of the fighters in Sudan - especially the RSF. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan war: The mother who could only afford the drugs to save one of her twins
The destruction and hunger that Sudan's war has brought leaves parents with some impossible choices.
www.bbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Only the devil asks humanity to make such decisions. as this mother had to. Clearly devil-worship is now the official religion of the fighters in Sudan - especially the RSF. www.bbc.com/news/article...
How perverted are these soldiers to rape women and men, and elderly in Ukraine to show their personal manliness and courage. Even Mother Russia must be crying into her borscht. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Sexual violence, torture and betrayal: Life under Putin's occupation
Evidence gathered by The Telegraph reveals Russia is using rape as a weapon of war in occupied Ukraine
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How perverted are these soldiers to rape women and men, and elderly in Ukraine to show their personal manliness and courage. Even Mother Russia must be crying into her borscht. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
There is much angst around United Nations marginalisation and reform & aid cuts. But is this all bad? We need a more nuanced debate . Gone are the days that the UN was needed to do everything, everywhere & that’s good - shows world progress. My POV via TRT World www.youtube.com/watch?v=otmI...
World body facing calls for reform amid funding shortfalls
YouTube video by TRT World Now
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October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There is much angst around United Nations marginalisation and reform & aid cuts. But is this all bad? We need a more nuanced debate . Gone are the days that the UN was needed to do everything, everywhere & that’s good - shows world progress. My POV via TRT World www.youtube.com/watch?v=otmI...
In case there is still some attention -oxygen left to spare , at least be aware of what is happening in #Darfur, #Sudan www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...
Sudan's civil war has faded from headlines, but monitors say it's the largest humanitarian crisis in the world | CBC News
The UN says more than 12 million Sudanese have been displaced since its civil war began in spring 2023, making it the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Aid agencies, including Medecins Sans Fr...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In case there is still some attention -oxygen left to spare , at least be aware of what is happening in #Darfur, #Sudan www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...
The dignity with which we treat the dead has a bearing on the humanity we show the living. #Israel #Palestine
Israel and the Occupied Territories: ICRC calls for dignified management of the deceased as transfers continue
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October 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The dignity with which we treat the dead has a bearing on the humanity we show the living. #Israel #Palestine
Much ado about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize and whether or not Trump deserves it. But do you really want a poisoned chalice that jinxes peacemaking efforts & brings more repression and conflict wherever it focuses? READ my latest piece: www.mukeshkapila.org/the-best-att...
October 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Much ado about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize and whether or not Trump deserves it. But do you really want a poisoned chalice that jinxes peacemaking efforts & brings more repression and conflict wherever it focuses? READ my latest piece: www.mukeshkapila.org/the-best-att...
Watch/listen latest episode of my Fading Causes podcast. A serious but humorously human conversation with Ambassador Yvette Stevens who has dedicated her life to “breaking open barriers” of all sorts: personal and professional. With life & work lessons for all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKUQ...
EPISODE 11: How Can Small Voices Make a Difference? with Ambassador Yvette Stevens
YouTube video by The Fading Causes Podcast
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October 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Watch/listen latest episode of my Fading Causes podcast. A serious but humorously human conversation with Ambassador Yvette Stevens who has dedicated her life to “breaking open barriers” of all sorts: personal and professional. With life & work lessons for all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKUQ...