At 8:30 a.m. one mid-October morning, Oumar Konipo arrived at a gas station in Bamako, Mali. For the 73-year-old retired United States Embassy worker, who has lived in the city since 1968, this was a familiar errand. Konipo waited until 2:30 p.m. to finally fill his tank.
“I met so many mums who just feel like they are watching their children starve and die. There’s nothing that they can do to help, and they feel forgotten,” said Meghan Greenhalgh, Director of International Programs at the International Medical Corps, who recently visited Sudan to report on the war.
“The consequence of going above 2 degrees, from an insurance industry perspective, as the insurance industry has already been pretty clear, is that we would be moving into a world that is systemically uninsurable.”
The former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has been named the new UN Secretary General.
The United Nations has called Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s support for extra-legal death squads a “license to kill.”
When I was working at the U.S. mission, in the morning I could be doing Yemen, then Ukraine in the middle of the day, and Syria at the end.
There seems to be only one way of reading Putin’s op-ed in the NYT: Do not trust him.
A look at the Security Council’s haphazard response to Somalia and Rwanda.
