19/02/2022
UNHCR/Hélène Caux | A man identified as Oumar, who was at risk of statelessness, holds his father’s identity card from French colonial times.
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Secretary-General António Guterres, he also reminded the participants of the challenges which face the so-called Non-Self-Governing Territories which remain around the world.
“Global cooperation is central to addressing its impacts”, he underscored, urging the Committee, also known as C-24, to “commit to making 2022 a year of recovery for everyone”.
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17/02/2022
TRIPOLI, Libia, Feb 17 2022 (IPS)* – Libya was supposed to hold elections early this year. Instead, it now has two rival political administrations — a return of the divisions of the past.
Graffiti on a wall in Benghazi, Libya, calls for elections and democracy. Credit: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)
Libya is entering a new cycle of its political crisis. In December 2021, a mere 48 hours before polls were supposed to open, the elections were postponed. Emad Sayah, the head of Libya’s High National Election Committee (HNEC), declared it to be a case of force majeure. He then proposed to Libya’s parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), to reschedule the elections for 24 January 2022.
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17/02/2022
(UN News)* — As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday [16 February 2022] that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”.
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© WFP/Cheick Omar Bandaogo | Displaced people wait in line for food distribution in Gorom-Gorom, Burkina Faso.
The vast Sahel, which runs nearly the breadth of the continent, south of the Sahara Desert, is experiencing some of its driest conditions in years.
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16/02/2022
(UN News)* — The World Health Organization’s (WHO) top official in Europe on Tuesday [15 February 2022] called on governments and health authorities to “closely examine” why there is low demand and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, as an “Omicron tidal wave” slams countries in the east of the region.
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© UNICEF/Evgenij Maloletka | A health worker checks a COVID patient’s condition at a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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16/02/2022
(UN News)* — Recent attacks indicate how the conflict in Yemen risks spiralling out of control, the chief UN mediator for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday [15 February 2022], as he called for “serious efforts” to be made by Yemeni parties, the region and the international community, to end the fighting, now in its seventh year.
© UNICEF/Saleh Hayyan | A one-and-a-half year-old girl is treated for malnutrition at a hospital in Yemen.
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15/02/2022
The Republican Party Has Become Irresponsible
John Scales Avery
In recent years, and especially since Donald Trump’s term as president, the Republican Party has become irresponsible.
Republican Senators and members of the House of Representatives no longer act to promote whatever is best for their country and the planet. Instead they block whatever the Democratic Party tries to achieve.
The Republican Party is aided by Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who, although the are nominally Democrats, act as destructively as though they were Republicans. Manchin is paid to do this by giant coal corporations, while Sinema gets her blood money from big pharmaceutical firms.
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15/02/2022
Feb 14 2022 (IPS)* – Inequality is deadly… It contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day—or one person every four seconds. This is a “highly conservative estimate” for deaths resulting from hunger, lack of access to healthcare and climate breakdown in poor countries…
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13/02/2022
The African Storybook Project has developed writing and publishing apps that are promoting literacy. Credit: Saide
The student from Katsina State in Nigeria, Hassan, won a National Reading Competition for a story she created using the African Storybook reader app and the African Storybook maker app. Saide, an education NGO, developed the apps through its African Storybook (ASb) project.
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13/02/2022
10 February 2022 (UNEP)* — Yacouba Sawadogo, 76, has been a farmer for much of his life, tending a plot of land in a semi-arid stretch of central Burkina Faso. But in the 1980s, that way of life almost came to an end.
Photo: Reuters Connect / 10 Feb 2022
Severe droughts triggered soil erosion and land degradation, crippling farms across Burkina Faso and much of Western Africa.
“People were leaving, and the animals and trees were dying,” Sawadogo recalled. “We had to look at a new way to farm.”
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13/02/2022
(UN News)* — The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar has doubled since February of last year, now crossing the 800,000 mark, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on 11 February 2022.
© UNHCR/Sa Nyein Chan | Internally displaced people receive assistance at the Myaing Gyi Ngu camp in Myanmar’s Kayin State.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh said the agency was stepping up aid for the displaced as conflict intensifies.
“Security is deteriorating rapidly across the country as fighting and armed conflict intensifies with no sign of abating”, Mr. Saltmarsh said.
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