Rebuilding and rehabilitation efforts in postconflict Sierra Leone have placed aid workers, United Nations peacekeeping forces, and businessmen at risk for contracting Lassa fever and enabled importation of cases to industrialized countries.
Brazil suffered the single greatest loss, which included 18 security workers in the peacekeeping mission.
They can also, for example, open their markets to imports, accept migrant workers and offer peacekeeping troops to bolster stability.
In the past ten days, two bombs went off, apparently targeting the international peacekeeping force and 11 Chinese workers were shot dead near Kunduz, until recently regarded as fairly safe.See articleAfter a crackdown by Pakistan's security forces in the region bordering Afghanistan, militants launched an attack on a security post.
As Reuters reports, despite billions of dollars of donations and aid pledges from some of the world's most powerful leaders, a 12,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping presence and an army of relief workers, the debris that clogs much of the city and a million homeless people living in tents are blunt testimony to the unfinished recovery task.
Our nameless narrator, a novelist himself and at some level a stand-in for Berlinski, who lived in Haiti with his UN worker wife while he wrote Peacekeeping, is gently ironic and detached.
Peacekeeping (Atlantic, £12.99) trains its laser eye on expat UN workers and their associates in corrupt, impoverished Haiti just before the 2010 earthquake.
The United Nations resolution was passed after a highly public declaration of opposition by the United Nations Staff Council, which represents more than 5,000 workers in New York and 18,000 more involved in peacekeeping and other operations worldwide.
Civilians, journalists, and international aid workers also became targets for attacks, as did the African Union peacekeeping force (AMISOM) authorized by the UN Security Council in February 2007.
But the abductions of aid workers from a guarded compound "is quite unprecedented," said Kemal Saiki, the communications director for the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur, located in El Fasher.
