{"id":142762,"date":"2025-05-26T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts"},"modified":"2025-05-26T21:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:13:37","slug":"peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts","title":{"rendered":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical tensions and funding shortages, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As of Dec. 31, 2024, a total of 94,451 international staff were serving in 57 peace operations, down from 161,509 in 2015 and a 6% drop from 100,568 in 2023, according to new SIPRI data released ahead of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the steep decline in staffing, the number of active missions remained relatively stable. SIPRI recorded 61 multilateral peace operations across 36 countries or territories in 2024, two fewer than in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Sub-Saharan Africa hosted the highest number of missions, with 21, followed by Europe with 19, the Middle East and North Africa with 14, the Americas with four, and Asia and Oceania with three.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years it has become much harder to agree on, deploy and sustain multilateral peace operations, both for the United Nations and for regional organizations like the African Union,\u201d said Dr. Claudia Pfeifer Cruz, a senior SIPRI researcher. \u201cThis has real consequences for civilians on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Kenya<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical tensions and funding shortages, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said Monday. As of Dec. 31, 2024, a total of 94,451 international staff were serving in 57 peace operations, down from 161,509 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":142761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[14601,544,14602,11903],"class_list":["post-142762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-global-peacekeeping","tag-kenya","tag-personnel","tag-sipri"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical te ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical te ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-26T20:56:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-26T21:13:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-26T20:56:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-26T21:13:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\"},\"wordCount\":195,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Global peacekeeping\",\"Kenya\",\"Personnel\",\"sipri\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\",\"name\":\"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-26T20:56:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-26T21:13:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical te ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg\",\"width\":864,\"height\":486,\"caption\":\"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts - kenya","description":"The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical te ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts","og_description":"The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical te ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2025-05-26T20:56:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-26T21:13:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":864,"height":486,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts","datePublished":"2025-05-26T20:56:21+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-26T21:13:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts"},"wordCount":195,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg","keywords":["Global peacekeeping","Kenya","Personnel","sipri"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts","name":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-26T20:56:21+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-26T21:13:37+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The number of personnel in multilateral peace operations has fallen by over 40% since 2015 due to rising geopolitical te ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/sm_1748277736.519165.jpg","width":864,"height":486,"caption":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/peacekeeping-staff-decrease-due-to-tensions-and-funding-cuts#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Peacekeeping Staff Decrease Due to Tensions and Funding Cuts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}