24/04/2020
By Helen Buyniski*
23 Apr, 2020 (RT)* — As fear and uncertainty swirl around the Covid-19 epidemic, an invisible evil potentially lurking anywhere, protective measures like masks have taken on a talismanic quality, and a religion built on shaming ‘heretics’ is growing.
Unable to see the microscopic “enemy” and bereft of a scientifically proven cure, those seeking deliverance from the new coronavirus are left with only their faith that the measures prescribed by health experts –our scientific priest class– will work to keep it at bay. That’s all well and good until those who buck the new orthodoxy are scapegoated for the plague.
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24/04/2020
By Mennatallah Homaid, Media and Communications Assistant, IOM Yemen*
“Before I came to Yemen, I was full of hope about the life I would have in the Gulf,” said seventeen-year-old Almaz. “But nobody told me about the war.”
Almaz in her wheelchair at IOM’s foster family after losing her leg. Photo: IOM 2020/ Mennatallah Homaid
Close to six years of conflict in Yemen have had little impact on the number of people travelling on the Eastern Route from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Gulf. Many are not aware that they will enter a conflict zone by making the sea voyage across the Gulf of Aden.
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24/04/2020
(UN News)* — Sweeping preventative measures seem to be curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the Great Lakes region of Africa, but the economic impact of the global pandemic threatens hard-won gains made along the long road back to peace and stability, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the region said on Wednesday [22 April 2020].
© UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin | Burundian refugees at the Mulongwe settlement in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file)
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Briefing the Security Council during open videoconference proceedings, Huang Xia urged the international community not to let up on its support for the continent-spanning region that includes Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda, among several other nations.
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You don’t have to be near people – or even alive! – to wear a mask… © Reuters / Mike Blake / Sergio Moraes 
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