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@guardian
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It's official:
@bts_bighit
will be performing at
#UNGA76
next Monday as part of a day long series of events on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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If Peter Obi ends up winning the presidential elections in Nigeria, you could argue that it would represent the most significant political impact of the George Floyd protests anywhere in the world -- including the US.
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BTS are speaking now at the United Nations. Part of a day long gathering dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals.
"yes, we are vaccinated. Of course we are."
@bts_bighit
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The US was totally and completely isolated here. Abandoned by its closest allies.
I can't ever recall, in my years of covering the UN, an instance in which the US was the only country to vote for its resolution.
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"I notice that Russian diplomats flee almost as quickly as Russian soldiers"
@DmytroKuleba
at the Security Council meeting on war crimes in Ukraine, noting that Sergey Lavrov left the room
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Linda Thomas Greenfield went to a segregated school and then LSU and then University of Wisconsin.
Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline
I support American greatness
And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China
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Ukraine's Amb to the UN, speaking directly to Russia's Ambassador:
"There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador."
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This is a wild statistic— the total spending on the F-35 is greater than the total spending by China on the entire Belt and Road Initiative. (From, “The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence”)
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I'll be interviewing
@SavvyRinu
about the massive
#EndsSARS
protest movement against policy brutality in Nigeria.
What do you want to learn?
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So Prince William never actually said what yesterday's social media outrage believed he said?
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Some background: Nigeria is the largest democracy in Africa and one of the largest multi-party democracies in the world.
Peter Obi is a surprising insurgent third party candidate currently leading in the polls ahead of Nigeria's February 23rd elections.
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The UN Refugee Agency has much experience here, and offered its assistance to the US on Monday.
US has not accepted
BTW, HHS and DHS appear to now basically be openly fighting about whose responsibility it is to reunite families or whether they’re even going to do that at all.
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Obi's surging poll numbers is largely due to his support among young people (under the age of 34) who have registered to vote in record numbers in recent months.
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So what does this have to do with the George Floyd and BLM?
In 2020 many thousands of Nigerian youth took to the streets in historic protests against police brutality. The movement was called
#EndSARS
and very much drew inspiration from BLM.
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It turns out that this 2020 movement against police brutality inspired a *massive* political awakening among Nigerian youth, who are now getting registered to vote in record numbers.
According to official stats ~85% of over 9 million newly registered voters are under 34
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For weeks, the Ethiopian government has been systematically blocking humanitarian relief from reaching Tigray.
Now, they are expelling the UN staff responsible for overseeing the int'l aid operation.
There will be no int'l eyes on the ground when the famine hits in full force
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141 in favor. 5 against. 35 abstentions.
That is 73% of all UN Member states voting to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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(At the time, I interviewed a key player in the
#EndSARS
movement
@SavvyRinu
who explained its origins and purpose)
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In other words:
The leading presidential candidate in one of the largest democracies in the world may owe his election to newly engaged young voters whose entry to politics was a protest movement directly inspired by BLM.
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These young voters are flocking to Peter Obi who is actively and deliberately courting them in a dynamic discussed at length in my podcast episode today with
@DCynthiaM
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Literally wrote a book about the national security council. 👇🏼
I've studied NSC my entire adult life. Putting Bannon on it and making DNI and Joint Chiefs optional is lunacy. Shows zero comprehension.
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After watching this UN briefing on Yemen, it's exceedingly clear that Mike Pompeo will have triggered a famine that unfolds during the first weeks and months of the Biden administration.
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The Trump Administration wants to pull out of the Universal Postal Union(!)
This is one of the oldest international institutions, been around since 1874.
It's why we can reliably send mail around the world.
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Russia's UN Amb says American authorities just delivered a letter to the Russia's UN offices, expelling 12 diplomats from Russia's mission to the United Nations
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Final vote of the United Nations General Assembly resolution to kick Russia out of the UN Human Rights Council.
Russia is out.
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The "C40" is a global coalition of mayors committed to taking on climate change and promoting sustainability at the municipal level
They just announced that
@AOC
will delivery a keynote at their major summit in Copenhagen next month.
The Green New Deal goes global!
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USA was one of just 14 countries to vote against a General Assembly Resolution calling for “an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.”
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It is rare to see a humanitarian official call out something like this in such stark terms -->
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719
.
@Malala
addressing the UN's Transforming Eduction Summit
"When you leave this room today, please ask: how many more generations are you willing to sacrifice? How long will you make us wait for what you promised? How many times must we stand on this stage to be heard?"
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I'm recording an interview today about the crisis in Tigray.
What do you want to learn?
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Ukraine UN Amb to Russian Amb:
"Your words have less value than a hole in a New York pretzel!"
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At a UN meeting about the Tigray crisis today
@USAmbUN
cited:
"credible reports that Eritrean forces are re-uniforming as Ethiopian military in order to remain in Tigray indefinitely. "
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I’ve covered the UN since 2005.
This is the single best speech I’ve ever seen delivered at the Security Council
Kenya makes strong statement opposing the undermining of the sovereignty & territorial integrity of
#Ukraine
during the emergency meeting of the
#SecurityCouncil
at 9pm on 21st February. See full statement delivered below 👇🏿
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That sucking sound you hear is the last bits of US soft power evaporating through the ceilings of the UN General Assembly.
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The implications of this
@russchoma
piece are jaw dropping. A savvy foreign power could simply buy Trump's debt. Tomorrow even.
Michael Bloomberg or Jeff Bezos should buy Trump's debt:
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This is awful. The
@WHO
says a doctor responding to the Ebola outbreak in DRC was killed in an attack on a hospital
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Anyone else think it is bizarre that South Korea would announce this as opposed to...the White House?
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The ongoing tragedy in Hong Kong is a stark reminder -- to me at least -- that the arc of history can bend the other way, too.
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I get progressives are disappointed that this election was not a landslide. But if current trends hold and Biden/Harris win, we've hit the pause button on democratic backsliding and the slouch toward authoritarianism.
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I don't think people fully realize that if present trends continue in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to die in a famine in the coming few months.
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This is the scariest political speech I have ever seen in America.
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What role is Eritrea playing in this conflict [in Tigray]"
"An extremely damaging and destructive role." -- US Envoy Feltman
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Nikki Haley says "corruption" will be a key theme of America's month-long presidency of the Security Council.
"our goal is to show that corruption is a cause of conflict"
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Seven top UN humanitarian officials left Ethiopia yesterday after being declared persona-non-grata by the gov.
This may trigger targeted sanctions by the US against top Ethiopian officials.
It will also accelerate a purposeful famine among civilian populations in Tigray
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China seems to be disappearing Canadian citizens.
This is a very big deal, folks!
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The worst part about the
#NagornoKarabakh
crisis is that Azerbaijan will face little repercussion for instigating an ethnic cleansing
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Amal Clooney goes where few dare. At the Security Council, she calls out Bolton and Pompeo by name, then blasts a Russian diplomat for opposing the International Criminal Court,
which could be a venue to try ISIS members who raped + abused her clients.
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The top foreign policy Dems
@SenatorMenendez
+
@RepGregoryMeeks
just released a joint statement urging the Biden Admin to impose sanctions on Ethiopian and Eritrean officials; and use its influence at World Bank + IMF to block loans to Ethiopia.
Last line is a dagger -->
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"The corruption of information is an effort to erode the very spirit of our democracies" is a great line from Macron.
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I'm speaking with
@matthewfsmith
of
@FortifyRights
about the crisis in Myanmar.
What do you want to learn?
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The audience just laughed out loud when
@nikkihaley
said "Israel has a strong human rights record."
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I’ll be speaking with
@JasminMuj
on Tuesday about some deeply concerning recent developments in Bosnia.
This is the region’s most serious crisis since the 1990s war.
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A decaying and stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen has been successfully emptied of its oil.
This is a *huge* story of a disaster averted. Had the UN not taken action, it would have resulted in the largest oil spill in world history!
A day of gratitude and relief as threat of Red Sea oil spill from
#FSOSafer
is averted. The
@UN
-led,
@UNDP
implemented plan to
#StopRedSeaSpill
has succeeded. 2 years of meticulous & painstaking negotiations and logistics by our dedicated teams delivered
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@USAmbUN
at Ethiopia UNSC meeting calls Ethiopia's expulsion of UN officials
"an affront to this council"
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Trump has formally withdrawn from the
@WHO
This whole statement from
@unfoundation
president
@e_cousens
is worth a read.
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This is the head of
@UNICEF
accusing Ethiopian government forces of purposefully dismantling UNICEF comms equipment , just as these forces were fleeing the city.
Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces entered our office in Mekele,
#Tigray
, Ethiopia today and dismantled our VSAT equipment.
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Tillerson has still yet to take any questions from reporters.
WATCH:
@mitchellreports
escorted from room as she tries to question Sec. Tillerson, Ukraine FM on China and Russia.
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They just introduced a bill to cut funding to *entire* UN system. Everything. From nuke inspctrs to starving babies
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I speak with
@LaetitiaBader
of
@hrw
who has compiled evidence of ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia, in the context of the civil war in Tigray-->
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The Tigray-Ethiopia conflict is about to get even worse, even as it falls farther from the headlines
New episode, featuring
@ZekuZelalem
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Rex Tillerson just refused to endorse the Senate's planned Russia sanctions bill.
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The Biden admin has just granted Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Myanmar. Given the gov't crackdowns, this is the right humanitarian gesture at the right time,
Next: do Ethiopia!
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This wont make headlines b/c media doesn't care. But $4.5b for refugees was just mobilized
@UN
b/c of US leadership
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I just heard some horrible stories (and saw corresponding screenshots) of Nigerians trying to flee Ukraine, but being turned away at the Polish border -- told they need visas.
Listening to Nigerian students in Ukraine right now crying on Twitter spaces. Some have trekked for 25km to Poland border in the freezing cold only not to be let in 😢.
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.
@UNReliefChief
in an intv w/
@EdithLedererAP
describes
"'a landscape of deprivation inside Tigray, where the malnutrition rate is now over 22% — 'roughly the same as we saw in Somalia in 2011 at the start of the Somali famine, which killed more than a quarter-million people."
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A 30% cut in State Department+10% boost in DOD?? Fun fact: more people in military marching bands than in the entire US Foreign Service
Make no mistake:
@StateDept
$ cuts aren't meant to offset gains for
#DOD
. This is US withdrawing from global stage.
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People outside the foreign policy bubble should know 3 things about this. 1) last time Armenia and Azerbaijan fought, Russia mediated. 2) this time, Russia was unwilling/unable 3) Now, us is brokering peace in Russias back yard. All a big sign of how weak Russia has become.
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I'll be speaking with
@ZekuZelalem
tomorrow about the deteriorating situation in Ethiopia/Tigray.
What do you want to learn?
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Ukraine Amb holds up a side-by-side copy of Russia's recognition of Georgia's "breakaway" regions to Putin's statement today.
"Who is next among the members of the United Nations?"
- Ukraine Amb to the UN
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In the wake of the Khashoggi murder, I keep thinking about this encounter between
@nytimes
publisher AG Sulzberger and Trump.
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RIP Jacques Chirac. He was derided at the time by pundits and politicians in the USA (remember "freedom fries?") for his principled stand against the Iraq war.
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MASSIVE line outside a
@SenKamalaHarris
event in Denver. Impressive all the more given that 2 other candidates are from this very city.
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After Contagion came out, I was speaking w/
@DrTomFrieden
-- then director of CDC, who said that the budget of the movie was orders of magnitude more than the budget of the epidemic surveillance service unit, portrayed by Kate Winslet's character.
If you’ve seen the film ‘Contagion’ and wonder why it’s so eerily accurate, that’s because screenwriter Scott Z. Burns did the research and listened to the heath experts who have been trying to warn us. Read about our chat in
@PostOpinions
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This is quite a correction to that Times piece on the residence of the US Ambassador to the UN.
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This is an important thread. The ebola outbreak in eastern DRC was very nearly extinguished. Then, a few cases emerged this week.
Vaccines can stop this, but that requires money -- money that the US will not longer provide.
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RE: Syrian babies: Trump this week defunded a program to ensure safe birth in Jordan's largest refugee camp
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Trapped on an island with need for cancer treatments to resume. One of many heartbreaking stories from Puerto Rico.
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Won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for a campaign to abolish nuclear weapons -->
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Russia says it regrets Ethiopia's decision to expel UN staff, but also cautions against those who "overdramatize" this event.
(Note: I think I'm accurately dramatizing this move by suggesting that it lays the groundwork for a horrific and looming famine.)
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Unless I've missed it, no member of the GOP leadership has condemned the Muslim ban.
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UN Security Council today is holding an emergency meeting in response to Ethiopia's decision to expel senior UN humanitarian staff.
It will be important to see if the Council is able to issue a joint statement condemning this decision and calling on Ethiopia to reverse course
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.
@VP
is representing the United States at the UN's "Generation Equality Forum," which is billed as the most important UN meeting on gender equality in 25 yrs
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The first session of the White House covid summit will feature Biden, Guterres and Tedros.
Yesterday,
@antonioguterres
said called vaccine inequity 'an obscenity.'
"We passed the science test.
But we are getting an F in Ethics."
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.
@chrislhayes
$35m to protect Trump Tower until Jan 20? For comparison's sake NYC bills feds $31m/*year* to protect *every* world leader
@UN
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The government of Ethiopia is refusing to allow UN and humanitarian officials in Tigray, suggesting they have something to hide.
Meanwhile, US report suggests ethnic cleansing is under way.
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This keeps happening
Moments ago Mursal Ayar, one of the women rights protestors has been abducted from her home by the
#Talibans
.
#Afghanistan
#afghanistanwomen
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On Friday, another disasterous Executive Order (to defund the UN) got scrubbed. These leaks can work to halt bad policy.
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Zelensky proposes a new international entity (U-24) to prevent outbreak of war -- and says it can be located in Kyiv.
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Days like today are why we have emotional support peacocks
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I hope to have an episode this week about the further deterioration in Tigray.
I am particularly close to the people of Tigray, Ethiopia, affected by a serious humanitarian crisis. Let us
#PrayTogether
so that the violence ceases, food and health assistance is guaranteed to all, and social harmony is restored as soon as possible.
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Biden just tapped talent from the United Nations to serve on his COVID advisory board.
Eric Goosby is an American who serves as the UN Special Envoy for Tuberculosis (also a respiratory disease)
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