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Navy Warship’s Secret Mission Off West Africa Aims to Help Punish Venezuela

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Adver­tise­ment Con­tin­ue read­ing the main sto­ry Sup­port­ed by Con­tin­ue read­ing the main sto­ryNavy Warship’s Secret Mis­sion Off West Africa Aims to Help Pun­ish Venezuela The tale of the cruis­er San Jac­in­to under­scores the Trump administration’s ani­mus toward Venezuela and how the post­elec­tion purge of

A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

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On Tues­day, the Mex­i­can Con­gress passed a new law severe­ly restrict­ing the oper­a­tions of for­eign law enforce­ment agents in Mex­i­co. It is clear­ly direct­ed at the Unit­ed States in retal­i­a­tion for the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense Sal­vador Cien­fue­gos on drug traf­fick­ing and cor­rup­tion charges at the Los Ange­les air­port in October.…

WHO: Equitable, Global Distribution of 2 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Begin in 2021

Covid-19, East Africa, North Africa, Spotlight, VOA News Africa, West AfricaLeave a comment

Near­ly two bil­lion dos­es of COVID-19 vac­cines have been secured for equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion in 2021 to the 190 coun­tries that have signed on to a World Health Orga­ni­za­­­tion-led part­ner­ship, accord­ing to a Fri­day announce­ment from the group.  Offi­cials from the

Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push South Sudanese into extreme hunger 

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Dri­ven by inse­cu­ri­ty, the effects of COVID-19, an on-going eco­nom­ic cri­sis, and the impact of flood­ing on liveli­hoods, three UN agen­cies called on Fri­day for imme­di­ate human­i­tar­i­an access to east­ern South Sudan’s Pibor coun­ty, where peo­ple are fac­ing cat­a­stroph­ic lev­els of hunger.