UN Aims To Decolonize 17 Territories Still Dependent On Colonial Powers – OpEd

The military coups in three former French colonies in West Africa—Burkina Faso, Mali, and most recently Niger—have turned the spotlight to one of the UN’s lesser-known mandates:  the decolonization of “non-self-governing territories” (NSGTs).

Last May, a United Nations forum on decolonization, which took place in...