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Covid Pandemic report – October 2021
As of 28th September the total global figure for people infected by Covid-19 stood at 232.3 million according to Johns Hopkins University. In addition to this, the recorded number who have died totalled 4,756,701. Cases are falling steadily from a recent high point at at the end of August. 44.5% of…
Afghanistan: The reality of life under the Taliban
Taliban leaders claim the group has changed since it last controlled most of Afghanistan in the 1990s and have suggested it could be a more tolerant governing force. But interviews with more than two dozen Taliban fighters, commanders and leaders since the fall of Kabul reveal a movement possibly open to…
Ethiopia: Starvation stalks Ethiopia's Tigray
It has been nearly three months since the UN warned that 400,000 people across Tigray had "crossed the threshold into famine". The situation has only deteriorated since then, as a de-facto blockade prevents most aid from getting in. Now, after months of heavy fighting and massacres that have claimed thousands…
Middle East: is in a shambles
There was a time not long ago when uprisings and wars in the Arab world topped the agenda at the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York. With most of those conflicts in a stalemate, the world’s focus has shifted to more daunting global challenges such as the still raging…
