This is how terrorists win whetther in Kashmir or Middle East or North Africa - split families and destroy communities aje.io/pu2efq

Colonialism was wrong & modern law rightly made it criminal but seeking historic reparations is just a way for current African leaders - many corrupt and even-more abusive of their own citizens - to draw attention away from their ongoing incompetences and worse. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

#COP30 trundles on but enough for the climate crisis? My latest column at NationalNews argues that narrow quick-fix climate actions wont do the job. We must return to broader climate-sensitive development that is the true climate justice that many clamour for www.mukeshkapila.org/climate-just...

Strange Secretary Council resolution on Gaza Palestine with no UN role and little bits for everyone in it and not enough to please anyone fully. But still best show in town. Whether it sinks or swims depends mostly on Israel & sensible Palestinians @passblue.bsky.social passblue.com/2025/11/17/t...

OK - we know that former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina was a nasty and murderous despot who betrayed her own people,..but a death sentence? How is that medieval mob-appeasing verdict going to help? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The generals of Pakistan surpass their own past record of stupid arrogance if they ignored history to tangle with their own creation - Taliban of Afghanistan. Little to choose btw fundamentalists on both sides as Pakistan reaps the bitter harvest of what it sowed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

“Be it LTTE, Hamas, or ISIS — You Can’t Create a Country Through Terror”: UN Whistleblower Mukesh Kapila, Who Exposed the Darfur Genocide, Speaks to Jaffna Monitor www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/be-...

My interview with Tehran Times. & article below thet here; Iimportant that people around the world - whatever the predilections of their rulers - learn about #Sudan #Darfur - not just consumers of Western media that dominate the shaping of narratives www.tehrantimes.com/news/520409/...

And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e

A must-read: how public service broadcasters like BBC, founded decades ago in good faith, are no longer indispensable - and perhaps harmful - for democracy. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

This excellent article from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social could easily have been titled “the great green betrayal”. So awful to see billions of “green climate funds” squandered this way #COP30 www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

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...

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...

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 @asiaone.bsky.social looks back before looking forward on what to do -urgently youtu.be/6psiEjr0ADs?...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, where is the ugliest conflict of all? #Darfur #Sudan

"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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Ethnic purity tests, ethnic cleansing through murder, rape, and dispossession continue in western Tigray region, condoned or encouraged by Ethiopia www.economist.com/middle-east-...

I didn’t know that as a university professor, I had the privilege to nominate people for the #Nobel Peace Prize. Too late this year, but hopefuls may please approach me for next year. On no-win-no-fee terms - otherwise modest 10 per cent of Prize value. news.sky.com/story/could-...

For the sake of sustaining a potential peace, it is vital to ensure that the unpalatable truths of the Gaza war are not buried. But first challenge is to dig up all those truths. My column via The National: www.mukeshkapila.org/what-the-gaz...

Congratulations to the Nobel committee for being smart enough to understand the physics to which they awarded their Prize. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What I learnt from a recent independent study and analysis in the British Medical Journal, on the nature of war in #Gaza. www.aljazeera.com/video/quotab...

There is merit in the complaint that you cant run a major UN agency remotely: US seeks ouster of UN drug and crime agency chief www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

Think of Trump what you will he has unerring ability to stick his finger in every crack in society and his questions cant be dismissed. One of them on the purpose of the United Nations is the topic for my column below: www.mukeshkapila.org/trump-is-rig...

Historical slavery was terrible with everyone all around the world at it for millennia. But demands for trillions in reparation are a ridiculous distraction when we should be more productively occupied dealing with today's injustices. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

Around the UN’s 80th anniversary, much debate on it’s role. In this TRTWorld panel, I argue that we must go beyond the standard angst and lamentation about US conduct and Security Council reform. look forward to a new order of ditributed power & not cry over spilt mik. youtu.be/6ma49XNifNM?...

Suffering of Gaza people is exactly same whether or not it is described as genocide & using such language does not stop ongoing horrors Perhaps even makes resolution more difficult. Aid agencies have duty to help not posture. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/09... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

An informative must-watch. With prevailing popular attitudes despite the few dissenting voices, in Israel, a two-state solution for Palestine - what is still left of it - is less likely than chances of hell freezing over. youtu.be/nMyyVaiY4V8?...

Is this the Chinese economic model for success or a warning? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

With much respect and sympathy for the author of this piece who has dementia but “loves life” and deserves all compassionate support, it is hardly a convincing case for legalizing assisted suicide. There is no right to die and creating one is an immoral and dangerous trend. aje.io/v0r5bi

What is a photo-reporter wanting you to see & how does that shape perceptions? Listen/watch my “Fading Causes" podcast with the extraordinary Ximena Borrazas, we talk on sexual violence inTigray & much more: the power and responsibility of wielding a camera in war www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0E...