Ebola
- Clair MacDougall
- • May 10, 2021
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Liberian Dr. James Soka Moses remembers the West African region’s devastating Ebola outbreak as if it were yesterday: the roaring ambulances, the patients lying on the floor and spilling outside of treatment facilities, the smell of vomit and the…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 19, 2021
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The United States jumps back into the Paris Agreement; the Security Council tackles climate-security risks (for now); a new UN envoy’s letter from the past returns to haunt him. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, General Assembly, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Sierra Ortega
- • September 23, 2014
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The United Nations has been almost the sole international body to ring any alarm bells about the disproportionate effect of the Ebola disease outbreak on women and children, where it has found that up to 75 percent of reported…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 3, 2014
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BAMAKO, Mali — As the first United States-African leaders summit opens this week in Washington, D.C, it is hard to hear Malians in their capital drum up enthusiasm for it. President Barack Obama has invited 50 African heads of…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Governance, UN Peacekeeping, Women