United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/united-nations-secretary-general-antonio-guterres/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 02 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 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/united-nations-secretary-general-antonio-guterres/ 32 32 Africa looks on in frustration as COP 25 opens in Madrid https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/africa-looks-on-in-frustration-as-cop-25-opens-in-madrid/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/africa-looks-on-in-frustration-as-cop-25-opens-in-madrid/ Punctuating the climate change summit in Madrid, heavy rains continue to pound east and central Africa causing deadly flooding and landslides. Activists fear the  conference known as COP25 will proceed more talks followed by delay and prevarication. The warning from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres opening COP25 in Madrid could not have been starker. […]

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]]> Punctuating the climate change summit in Madrid, heavy rains continue to pound east and central Africa causing deadly flooding and landslides.

Activists fear the  conference known as COP25 will proceed more talks followed by delay and prevarication.

The warning from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres opening COP25 in Madrid could not have been starker.

The world is passing the point of no return in averting climate disaster.

Even more drastic action is needed if we are to save the planet.

Looking at this with frustration, African countries that produce ten percent of the carbon emissions causing this devastation, has seven of the ten countries worst hit by climate change.

The don’t have the diplomatic muscle to press the real polluting powers to do what necessary to save them.

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]]> Al Shabaab claims responsibility for fatal attack on Kismayo hotel https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/al-shabaab-claims-responsibility-for-fatal-attack-on-kismayo-hotel/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/al-shabaab-claims-responsibility-for-fatal-attack-on-kismayo-hotel/ At least 10 ten people have been killed and dozens injured in an attack on a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo. Several gunmen stormed the hostel after a car bomb was detonated at it gates. Terror group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack on tribal elders, politicians and journalists meeting […]

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]]> At least 10 ten people have been killed and dozens injured in an attack on a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo.
Several gunmen stormed the hostel after a car bomb was detonated at it gates.
Terror group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack on tribal elders, politicians and journalists meeting ahead of regional elections next month.
Kismayo, 500 kms south of Mogadishu, is Somalia’s second city.
Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre has condemned the attack by the group that has resorted to indiscriminate terror since being driven from cities….
….as has United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres who offers UN support and solidarity for all Somalis in pursuit of a peaceful future. 

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