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
#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...
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#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...
The UN Security Council Accepts US Plan for Gaza With Wariness - PassBlue
The UN Security Council Accepts US Plan for Gaza With Wariness - PassBlue
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November 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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...
At a Shared Symbol of Jihad, the Taliban Defy Their Old Ties With Pakistan
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November 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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-...
“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
When Dr. Mukesh Kapila arrived in Khartoum in March 2003 as the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan — the UN’s most senior official in the country — he carried with him the ...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“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/...
What is happening in Darfur today is worse than 20 years ago, Mukesh Kapila warns
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November 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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
Italy probes Sarajevo ‘sniper safaris’: What were they, who was involved?
According to a lawsuit, participants would be flown from Italy to Bosnia where they would pay to shoot people.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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-...
The fall of Europe’s public service broadcasters
Europe’s public broadcasters were created to stop propaganda. Born in the wreckage of war to protect democracy from lies, they now preach soft, sanctimonious, state-approved truths. The resignations a...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
COP30: The cautionary tale of the Sahel’s Great Green Wall
The vision was of a wall of trees halting the advance of the desert, but the reality is a failed form of green neo-colonialism.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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
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
@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?...
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