On Sunday, April 3rd, Guterres, Josette Sheeran, ED of the WFP, and Michelle Bachelet, ED of UN women, will be in northeastern Kenya to visit the largest refugee settlements in the world.
Foreigners committed to assisting in the rebuilding of Afghanistan have long accepted the possibility that they might die at the hands of warring parties, but this degree of violence from ordinary citizens is not something most of us factored into our decision to work here.
When USAID Administrator Raj Shah told congress yesterday that 70,000 children could needlessly die should Congress pass a restrictive global health budget, this is what he was talking about.
Apparently, rioters enraged by a reported Koran burning in Florida stormed a UN office in northern Afghanistan and killed eight UN workers. Some were beheaded. This is just awful.
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