"...1.1 million people, or 70% of the population, depend on humanitarian aid in Gaza..."
He may think it's sinful to use condoms, but why deny others who might not feel the same way? It just goes to show that being a world champion boxer doesn't prevent you from being a world class something else.
I've just received a first look at the newest polling data from the Better World Campaign and UN Foundation. The survey, conducted by the bi-partisan polling duo Geoff Garin and Bill McInturff, finds American approval ratings for the United Nations are at 60%, while only 28% say they have an unfavorable image.
The SG also condemned the escalating violence in the region that has injured peacekeepers in addition to civilians, and called on both parties to stop their military operations, and withdraw all forces and armed elements from Abyei.
On Saturday, the northern Sudanese army invaded the border town of Abyei, rolling tanks through the streets and firing mortar rounds into the United Nations' compound. The Sudanese Armed Forces took the strategic town of Abyei with little struggle from the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army forces stationed in the town.
We will know the United States is serious about its intentions to see Saleh's rule ended when the administration literally puts its money where its mouth is and makes the the flow of military aid contingent on democratic reforms.
Last week, the World Food Programme confirmed the death of one of its staff members in an ambush on a UN convoy in the resource-rich Somali region of Ethiopia, known as Ogaden. Both the government and an insurgent movement are denying blame.
A former National Security Council member under both George W. Bush and President Obama, Douglas A. Ollivant, writes an op-ed in the Washington Post that is symptomatic of why the US is still not getting its longest war right and how Afghanistan is still misunderstood, even by high-level policymakers.