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January 24, 2021
The microscopic creatures helping build Africa’s Great Green Wall
January 23, 2021
COVID ‘vaccine hoarding’ putting Africa at risk: WHO
NEW YORK — The top UN official in the Central African Republic (CAR) appealed to the Security Council on Thursday for more peacekeepers and equipment amid escalating violence surrounding elections last month.Mankeur Ndiaye, head of the UN mission in the country, MINUSCA, said this “new security situation” is testing its ability to ensure civilians are protected.An alliance of armed groups, known as the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), launched attacks ahead of the 27 December vote, which saw incumbent President, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, returned to power.Assaults and ambushes have continued, including against UN peacekeepers, seven of whom have been killed in recent weeks.“We need an increase in our capacity in order to respond to this new threat which is destabilizing...
January 23, 2021
CAR: UN mission chief appeals for more peacekeepers
GENEVA — Against the backdrop of a rapidly deteriorating security situation in Mali and the wider Sahel region, the UN peacekeeping chief concluded a visit to the restive northwest African nation on Thursday.With the country in the throes of a political transition, following a military coup and the establishment of an interim government last year, the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, took, stock of recent political and security developments, and discussed progress on implementing the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission there (MINUSMA), the most dangerous place to serve as a ‘blue helmet’ in the field.Four peacekeepers were killed, and five others wounded in an attack on their convoy just over a week ago, in the vast Timbuktu region, although a...
January 23, 2021
Mali in transition: UN peacekeeping chief takes stock of political and security developments
January 22, 2021
COVID-19 ‘vaccine hoarding’ putting Africa at risk: WHO
KHARTOUM — A sharp uptick in intercommunal violence in Sudan’s Darfur region has forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes in search of safety, including many into neighboring Chad, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Friday.
According to the agency, 250 people — including three humanitarian workers — also lost their lives in the clashes that started on Jan. 15. in West Darfur province, and spread into South Darfur the next day.Boris Cheshirkov, a UNHCR spokesperson, told journalists at a regular press briefing in Geneva on Friday, that about 3,500 new Sudanese refugees have arrived in eastern Chad.
“These refugees — the majority of them women and children — have been hosted in four very remote locations that lack basic services or public infrastructure,...
January 22, 2021
250 killed, over 100,000 displaced as violence surges in Darfur: UNHCR
January 21, 2021
UN chief welcomes US return to Paris Agreement on Climate Change
ROME — Action to control unprecedented desert locust infestations in the Horn of Africa last year has protected crops and livelihoods, but funding is needed to sustain operations against new incursions, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.The UN agency is seeking $38 million to continue work in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan. Without this support, 28 aircraft that patrol the skies to spot and spray swarms could be grounded as early as March.No time for complacency Dominique Burgeon, FAO’s director of emergencies and resilience, said the huge desert locust swarms in 2020, some as wide as 60 kilometers, had not been seen in decades, threatening food security in a region where many were already going hungry.Surveillance and response led to 1.6 million hectares...
January 20, 2021
East African countries better prepared, but desert locust threat ‘not over’
January 20, 2021
‘Swift action’ needed in Tigray to save thousands at risk, UNHCR warns
January 19, 2021
Two UN peacekeepers killed in an ambush in Central African Republic
