UN peacekeeping crisis: Funding, personnel at 25-year low, report warns

UN peacekeeping crisis: Funding, personnel at 25-year low, report warns Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Wed, 05/27/2026 - 18:48 The Trump administration has been withholding payments to the United Nations in a bid to push for reforms Indian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan patrol near an airstrip in the strategic opposition-controlled town of Akobo, Jonglei State, on 12 February 2026 (Luis Tato/AFP) Off Funding and personnel for United Nations peacekeeping operations dropped to a 25-year low last year after major donors, led by the US, did not pay their mandatory commitments on time, a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) has shown. The data was released ahead of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Friday. In July 2025, some 35 percent of the UN's $5.