Felippe Grande Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/felippe-grande/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Felippe Grande Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/felippe-grande/ 32 32 UN ministerial forum raises $3billion dollars for refugees https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/un-ministerial-forum-raises-3billion-dollars-for-refugees/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/un-ministerial-forum-raises-3billion-dollars-for-refugees/ United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees Filippe Grande says the three-day global forum on refugees this week was a success. Three billion dollars was pledged at the three-day ministerial gathering in Geneva to help people fleeing their countries to escape war and conflict. The three billion dollars pledged in Geneva  is in addition to the […]

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]]> United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees Filippe Grande says the three-day global forum on refugees this week was a success.

Three billion dollars was pledged at the three-day ministerial gathering in Geneva to help people fleeing their countries to escape war and conflict.

The three billion dollars pledged in Geneva  is in addition to the more than two billion dollars  pledged by the World Bank to help re-house refugees and finance 50 000 resettlement centres.

Germany, which has taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees is giving 1,7 billion euros.

The United States under President Donald Trump is a dark cloud over this issue. The limit of 18 000 refugees imposed for 2020 is the lowest  figure in modern American history.

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