10/05/2020
Bossaso, Puntland, 8 May 2020 (IOM)* – Hundreds of migrants are stranded in Bossaso, Puntland, Somalia, as a result of border and sea-crossing closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
IOM Migration Response Centre in Bossaso, Somalia, provides direct assistance and basic health services to migrants stranded in the city. Credit to Muse Mohammed March 2020.
Every year scores of migrants, mainly from landlocked Ethiopia, pass through Bossaso seeking to cross the Gulf of Aden to war-torn Yemen, and hoping to proceed onward to Gulf countries, particulary Saudi Arabia.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that one day last month, approximately 600 migrants reached Bossaso in Puntland, in a single day.
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09/05/2020
Building back from COVID-19 will be an inter-generational effort. Decisions being taken now about what sectors of our economy to prioritize and what opportunities to seize in the recovery effort may impact the lives of children and youth disproportionately. Securing a healthy, safe future that is more resilient to global threats is fundamental, as this emerging generation of voters and consumers are increasingly aware.
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School programmes moved online. Schedules changed. Routines thrown into turmoil. It is difficult to know what long-term changes COVID-19 will have on the children who are enduring the current pandemic, but something surely is coming. Whether it is shifts in attitude toward society, work or education, the youngest generation will not come out of this the same.
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09/05/2020
Lockdown measures will worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informal economy workers, says the International Labour Organization.
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09/05/2020
(UN News)* — Restrictions against humanitarians who rescue migrant boats in the central Mediterranean are putting lives at risk and must be lifted immediately, the UN human rights office said on Friday [8 May 2020].
Frontex/Francesco Malavolta | Migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea are rescued by a Belgian ship (file photo).
The appeal follows reports of failure to assist, and even push back, vessels carrying desperate people in one of the world’s deadliest migration routes, amidst the fears and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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09/05/2020
Burundi, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda and Yemen have been badly affected. More than 260 people have reportedly been killed, tens of thousands of people have been displaced, and crops, homes and infrastructure swept away by flash floods and landslides.
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09/05/2020
8 May 2020 (UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for concerted global action to quash the “tsunami” of hate speech that has risen alongside the COVID-19 pandemic.
OCHA/Yaye Nabo Sène | A young girl holds a sign which says Zo Kwe Zo, Central African Republic’s national motto, meaning all human beings are equal (file photo).
“COVID-19 does not care who we are, where we live, what we believe or about any other distinction. We need every ounce of solidarity to tackle it together. Yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering”, he said.
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08/05/2020
Transformation of energy supply & new energy security architecture
The shift in oil prices posed the most recent challenge to an already complicated global energy chessboard | Image posted here from Wall Street International.
7 May 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Despite of permanent worldwide intentions to forecast the future of energy supply, where the estimates just a decade ago undeniably foresaw the barrel should gradually give way to gas, sun and wind, nowadays we can discuss the potential of increasingly diversified energy mix, however we are in a difficult position to provide any precise information regarding even the next day energy market situation.
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08/05/2020
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with those suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. UNEP is responding in a number of ways, including by supproting global efforts to protect biodiversity, to put an end to the illegal trade in wildlife, to safeguard the handling of chemicals and waste and to promote economic recovery plans that take nature and the climate emergency into account. This article is one of several highlighting UNEP’s duty to help nations build back better after the pandemic to increase resilience to future crises.
8 May 2020 (UN Environment)* — With scientists saying the polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s there is an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible to prevent catastrophic sea-level rise.
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08/05/2020
(UN News)* — Thousands of migrants have been stranded “all over the world” where they face a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, the head of UN migration agency, IOM, said on Thursday [7 May 2020].
© UNHCR/Elizabeth Marie Stuart | Refugees practice physical distancing st a camp in South Sudan
“Health is the new wealth,” António Vitorino insisted, citing proposals by some countries to introduce so-called immunity passports and use mobile phone apps that are designed to prevent the spread of new coronavirus.
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