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UNSMIL hybrid press conference
16 January 2021
Press Conference Announcement
Stephanie Turco Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya
Note for the audio: Audio channel left : English / audio channel right: Arabic
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UNSMIL hybrid press conference
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The exact time of this Press Conference will be communicated as soon as possible
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Cameroon: Authorities urged to seek justice for recent deadly attacks
15 January 2021
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in Cameroon to take steps to prosecute perpetrators behind two recent deadly attacks in the Anglophone provinces of the country, his Spokesperson said on Friday.
In a note responding to questions from journalists, Stéphane Dujarric said the UN chief is concerned about persistent violence in the North-West and South-West…
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Air travel down 60 per cent, as airline industry losses top $370 billion: ICAO
15 January 2021
A new report from the UN’s air transportation agency confirms there was a “dramatic” fall in international air travel due to COVID-19, of around 60 per cent over the course of last year, to levels last seen in 2003.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said on Friday, that as seating capacity fell by around 50 per cent last year, that left just 1.8 billion…
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COVID-19 committee stresses need for equitable vaccine access, more data sharing
15 January 2021
As COVID-19 cases spike in parts of Europe, Africa and the Americas, and new variants of the virus emerge in some countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday called for greater global collaboration in ending the pandemic.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported on the outcomes of the latest meeting of the Emergency Committee on COVID-19, held…
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Child labour ‘robs children of their future’, scourge must end urges UN
15 January 2021
Although child labour has decreased significantly over the last decade, one-in-ten children are still caught up in harmful work, the UN’s labour agency said on Friday, kicking off a year-long bid to eradicate the practice.
“There is no place for child labour in society”, said Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO). “It robs children of their future…
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As COVID deaths pass two million worldwide, Guterres warns against self-defeating ‘vaccinationalism'
15 January 2021
With more than two million lives now lost worldwide to COVID-19, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Friday for countries to work together and help each other to end the pandemic and save lives. In a video statement, Secretary-General António Guterres noted that the absence of a global coordinated effort has worsened the pandemic’s deadly impact.
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Pandemic curbs trend towards ever-increasing migration
15 January 2021
Travel restrictions and other curbs to movement put in place in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, have put a significant dent in migration figures, but the overall trend shows 100 million more people living outside their countries of origin in 2020, compared to the year 2000, a new UN report revealed on Friday.
‘Migration is part of today’s world’
International Migration 2020 Highlights, published by…
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Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia: Dozens killed, hundreds injured
15 January 2021
At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the West Sulawesi Province of Indonesia on Friday morning, according to the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
The earthquake unleashed dozens of aftershocks, some six kilometres northeast of the city of Majene, causing heavy damage across the city, including to the five-…
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Central African Republic: Displacement reaches 120,000, as another deadly attack leaves one UN peacekeeper dead
15 January 2021
“Worsening” election violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced 120,000 people from their homes, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday, as the UN Secretary-General also condemned another attack by combatants on a UN convoy, which left a peacekeeper from Burundi dead, and two others wounded.
In an appeal for an immediate end…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
15 January 2021
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Ethiopian refugees in Sudan
Axel Bisschop, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), speaking from Khartoum, said that he had just returned from the east part of Sudan, where a recent influx of refugees from Ethiopia had taken…
