On
Mozambique ICRC Speaks While
Guterres of UN Refused Press Q
on Missing Journalist There
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UN
GATE, Dec
4 -- The lack of commitment to
press freedom by UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres, who
has himself banned the
critical Press which asks
about his spending from the UN
for 519 days and counting, has
been on display, see below.
Now on December 4 from ICRC,
this: "Pretoria/Geneva (ICRC)
– Armed violence in
Mozambique’s northernmost
province Cabo Delgado is
forcing scores of people from
their homes, destroying
villages and health centres,
and making it difficult for
families to recover from
Cyclone Kenneth, which hit the
area in April
2019.
Attacks on Mozambicans have
been recurrent in Cabo Delgado
since 2017. The International
Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) is concerned about the
impact of the armed violence
on displaced Mozambicans and
their host communities, should
this pattern continue.
“People in Cabo Delgado are
suffering from two disasters:
a cyclone, which wiped out
homes and crops earlier this
year, and armed violence,”
said Patricia Danzi, ICRC’s
regional director for Africa.
“People have suffered two
years of attacks on their
villages, which has forced
many to leave their houses and
most of their belongings
behind.”
In the last two years,
hundreds of people have been
wounded and killed, homes
burned down, and property
looted."
At the UN,
where SG Guterres hides his
financial links including to
UN briber CEFC China Energy
through Lisbon based
Gulbenkian Foundation and lets
his son Pedro go undisclosed
business in the Lusophone
world using the UN name, Inner
City Press asked in writing:
January 17-5: On press
freedom, what is SG Guterres
action on that Ghanaian
journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale
was killed tonight in
Accra. Ahmed was a
committed and courageous
colleague, instrumental in
this year’s anasglobal
investigation of international
soccer corruption, after which
he was viciously doxxed &
threatened?" Four hours later,
no answer at all, despite
promises of answers from
Guterres' Global Communicator
Alison Smale to
the UN Special Rapporteur on
Freedom of Expression David
Kaye and by Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric, on
camera. Guterres' most
recent Ghana connection was to
use Kofi Annan's funeral as a
pretext
to spend public money flying
with UN Security to his home
in Lisbon, then to refuse
to disclose the costs. Nor was
there any answer on this
question by Inner City Press
about Lusophone Mozambique:
"January 17-2: On Mozambique,
what is SG Guterres action
(beyond banning Inner City
Press for 197th [now 518th]
day) on that it's been 10 days
since Amade Abubacar was
arrested in Mozambique. He's
being held incommunicado.
Rights groups say there is a
real risk of him being
'disappeared'?" No
answer at all. This is today's
UN.
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