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Horrific events have been unfolding in northern Mozambique in recent days, where thousands of people have fled gunmen who’ve attacked the town of Palma, located in Cabo Delgado province, reportedly killing dozens.
According to UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), youngsters have been separated from their parents, and every single one desperately needs help.
UNICEF’s head of communications in Mozambique, Daniel Timme, spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson from an aid hub in the provincial capital, Pemba.
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- COVID-19 infections and deaths continue rising globally
- Concerns over Indonesia’s forced evictions at ‘New Bali’ resort
- CAR: rights concerns alert over work of foreign military contractors
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
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- Grave concern for women and children targeted in northern Mozambique
- Syrians’ struggle is getting worse, not better, says UN’s Guterres
- World leaders call for new international treaty to improve pandemic response
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- Myanmar: condemnation for military’s ‘shameful, cowardly’ attacks on protesters
- $10 billion Syria appeal looks to fulfil emergency and long-term needs
- Stricken Suez ship afloat, but will cause 40 per cent hit on cargo volumes from Asia to Europe
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The gigantic cargo ship that ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal last week is afloat once again after a herculean salvage operation, but the damage to global trade will take months to fix.
That’s the assessment of maritime expert Jan Hoffman at UN trade and development agency UNCTAD, who also explains why the cost of sending freight around the world has increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here he is, talking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 03/27/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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Ralph speaks to human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger, who represented the indigenous people of Ecuador and won a multi-billion dollar judgement against Chevron for polluting the Ecuadorian rain forest in what is known as the “Amazon Chernobyl.” So why has he been held under house arrest in New York for nearly years? Tune in to find out.
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Nearly 700,000 people have fled “a cocktail of crisis” in the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a three-year brutal insurgency has intensified amid grinding poverty, natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monica Grayley spoke to Aboubacar Koulibaly, leader of an expert team from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) that is currently in Mozambique to increase support to people battered by the complex, multilayered crisis.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
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- Alert over Eritrea refugees after camps found destroyed in Ethiopia
- 100 million more children fail minimum reading proficiency because of COVID
- Severe insecurity in Angola driving families to Nambia
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Reasonable progress has been made so far drawing down the UN’s former peacekeeping mission in Darfur, UNAMID, and cooperation on the part of the Sudanese Government has been “excellent”.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
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- 1.4 million TB sufferers lost out on treatment during first year of COVID-19
- DR Congo abuses against civilians continue unabated: Bachelet
- Oceans under threat like never before, warns World Meteorological Organization
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 03/20/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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In a fast-paced show, Ralph welcomes back former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Peter Bradford to update us on the 10th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Then Public Citizen’s, Alan Zibel, joins us to tell us how we taxpayers amazingly are still subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Ralph answers listener questions and debuts a feature on his website called “Reporter’s Alert.”
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When COVID-19 locked down Cambodia last year, people with HIV were afraid that they would lose lifesaving access to regular supplies of anti-retroviral drugs.
Fortunately, that never happened, thanks to a successful new medicines distribution scheme – and a little bit of help from social media platforms too – as UNAIDS country director Vladanka Andreeva told UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
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In this week’s show, we’re getting the latest expert advice from the UN health agency on what to make of clotting concerns surrounding COVID vaccines. We’ll also hear about a mounting death toll among protesters in Myanmar and calls from UN rights chief for targeted sanctions… and we’ll be highlighting a good news story from Cambodia, thanks to UNAIDS, where the agency has had to innovate to respond to the challenges facing people with HIV during the pandemic.
With Daniel Johnson and Solange Behoteguy-Cortes, from UN Geneva.
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Teenager Amineh Abou Kerech left Syria in 2012, one year into the decade-long conflict which has devastated the country.
She reads her poem for UN News.
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 03/13/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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Ralph spends the entire Radio Hour with Simon Winchester, author of “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.” Find out that it’s better when Mother Nature makes the boundaries with mountains, rivers, lakes, valleys, and oceans. When humans draw the maps: not as good.
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In this week’s show, we’re covering the disastrous impact of COVID-19 in DPR Korea (widely known as North Korea) as told to the Human Rights Council; violence in South Sudan that’s the worst since the onset of the civil war in December 2013 – and, we’ll hear about war photographer Giles Clarke’s moving portrait campaign showing some of Yemen’s displaced millions, in partnership with OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
With Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy-Cortes and Alpha Diallo from UN Geneva.
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- Shift mindsets that deny equality for women in all walks of life, urges UN chief
- Blaze kills migrants, guards in Yemeni capital Sana’a
- 10 million additional girls at risk of child marriage because of to COVID-19
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 03/06/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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