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The western military intervention in Libya in 2011 led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi regime and precipitated the country’s collapse into disorder and insecurity. Years of factional fighting ensued, which continues to this day.
2 July 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Not long after Donald Trump’s accession to the presidency, I found myself arguing with fellow oppositionists who insisted that the new POTUS was either insane, moronic, knowingly corrupt, or a Russian agent – or all four simultaneously.
Richard Rubenstein
It seemed to me – and still does – that these characterizations misconceived the real problem.
“Listen,” I told my friends, “these insults won’t work. You are using conventional terms of abuse to describe something for which we have no political vocabulary.”
“Which is what?”
7 July 2018
IN THE late 1980s, my secretary told me that the Deputy Chief of Staff wanted to see me.
Uri Avnery
That was rather surprising. The army command was not on friendly terms with my paper, Haolam Hazeh. For dozens of years we had been officially boycotted by the army, after publishing a story which the then Chief of Staff considered insulting.
So I was curious when I entered the Deputy’s room. His name was Ehud Barak, and I had never met him before.
Asmorom is one of around 80 refugees who undertook the dangerous journey to Europe via Libya, after being relocated by Israel.
Asmorom, 28, hugs a UNHCR cultural mediator outside Rome’s Termini train station. © UNHCR/Alessandro Penso
ROME, Italy (UNHCR)* – Asmorom was just 18 when he fled Eritrea in 2007. It would take three years and many violent beatings by people smugglers for him to find a safe place to call home in Israel – only for his world to come crashing down once more.
N’Djamena, 6 July 2018 (IOM)* – Last Sunday (01/07), 20 Sub-Saharan migrants, including eight potential victims of trafficking, were reportedly stranded in Faya, in Northern Chad.
UN Migration Agency in Chad Appeals for Funding to Assist Stranded Migrants | IOM
The town of Faya is located on one of the main migration routes in Northern Chad, where the Chadian authorities have repeatedly identified and referred victims of trafficking (VoTs) to IOM, the UN Migration Agency.
ROME, 5 July 2018 (FAO)* – Traditional ginseng farming in the Republic of Korea and olive tree groves in Italy’s Umbria region have been recognized on the register of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), managed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Noting in a statement that “approximately 250 people, many of them young persons”, had been killed since mid-April in demonstrations against President Daniel Ortega’s Government, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein highlighted a “climate of intimidation and insecurity” on the streets.
Ideologies which define nationality as being determined by ethnicity or bloodline are denying millions of people of their right to citizenship, a UN expert has charged.
E. Tendayi Achiume, Special Rapporteur on racism, focused on the issue of ethno-nationalism in her first report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, whose current session ended on 5 July 2018.
6 July 2018 — Halima Yakoy Adam won’t forget 22nd December in 2015, the day she was supposed to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Lac Region town of Bol, 200 km north of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, in Central Africa.
UNICEF/LeMoyne A Rohingya refugee carries a child in a basket as he and others who crossed the Naf River the night before carry their belongings as they make their way through a no-man’s land area along the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The exercise, which began at the end of June, is expected to take up to six months to complete.
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