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As UN Bans Inner City Press It E-Asks Spox Dujarric of SG Covers Up South Sudan Covid 19 WHO Cameroon UN Racism UN Gym China Fleming Bans Press 3000+ UNanswered

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UN GATE / SDNY COURT, April 20 –  Inner City Press on 5 July 2018 was banned from entering the UN, two day after it was physically removed from conducting interviews outside meeting about the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' $6.7 billion budget.

  Then Guterres' Department of Global Communication, run by Melissa Fleming, issued a letter banning Inner City Press from the UN - for life. With no due process, no right of appeal.  Guterres has put the UN in the US Press Freedom Tracker, here. Guterres' Spokesman Stephane Dujarric falsely promised on camera that he would be answering banned Inner City Press' questions - but see below.

     On April 20 before another phoned-in UN noon briefing by Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric amid his and Guterres' cover up COVID-19's spread by the UN to and in South Sudan with a national staff bus without social distancing (Inner City Press asked Guterres, here), and now of an official flying out while under quarantine, Inner City Press submitted yet more questions (blocked by Dujarric's screener Florencia Soto Nino on +1 917 226 7816 and Dujarric himself on +1 917 622 7652) including asking for an immediate response about the UN South Sudan transcript leaked to it and the basis on which it continues to be lawlessly banned from entering to ask questions in person.  On April 13 there was no answer from Farhan Haq on +1 917 592 4591, not even a confirmation of receipt, and now UN official like Hua Jiang, Eri Kaneko and others to be named blocking email questions about the UN's spread of Covid 19, April 20 video with commentary here and here -  Inner City Press asked:

April 20-1: On the Coronavirus Covid-19, immediately provide the UN's response on staff member violating quarantine in South Sudan, the High Level Taskforce memo Inner City Press has be sent and exclusively published. To which country did the staffer go? What is his or her name? What "discipline" was imposed? What has WHO, named in the memo, done?  AGAIN immediately provide SG Guterres' comment and action on Inner City Press' exclusive on the admission in UNMISS Town Hall transcript sent to banned Inner City Press by disgusted staff that national staff on UN bus had no social distancing, and everything else in that transcript - immediately.  and that UN Security, which Guterres and you used to oust and ban Inner City Press, is violating all New York City (and state) laws by keeping their gym open, with up to three officers using it at once, see

 On CAMEROON, this morning Inner City Press asked Watchlist which said it would be "highly problematic" if Guterres does not include Cameroon in his CAAC report. See here. Why hasn't he to date? Is he still claming and taking credit for a ceasefire?

  Please immediately respond to seeming UN staff cover up in DRC, here:  Immediately explain why the UN has for its virtual briefing, unlike the IMF which for example took questions yesterday from journalists from Ghana and elsewhere and from Inner City Press, limited questions to "resident correspondents" / members of UNCA, and explain how it is legimate that the briefing have not include any African journalists, or for example the UN bus in South Sudan question 

On Cameroon, where SG has praised and taken credit for ceasefire, Paul Biya's army has continued killing. and, Military kills biker in Kumba as they  "enforce " lockdown A commercial motorcycle rider was killed at Confidence Street in Kumba, South West region. He was shot dead by security forces in their enforcement measures to curb the deadly coronavirus. A witness says the rider was shot by a military man for attempting to run away as forces questioned him for not wearing a face mask. A passenger was also wounded. What is the SG doing?

 On Ghana, amid lockdown, what is the SG's action on the demolition was carried out by the government at Old Fadama? The slum is home to the largest electronic waste dumpsite in Ghana where millions of discarded electronic gadgets are dismantled each year causing severe pollution of the nearby Korle Lagoon.

On China, what is the SG doing about that the Chinese government has begun to track people through software that analyzes their personal information. Individuals throughout the country, including journalists, were required to register for a QR code through WeChat, a mobile messaging app, or AliPay, a mobile wallet.  Users are first prompted to enter personal information, including their Chinese ID number, phone number, residential address, their place of work and where, when and how one entered the region, as well as the address of where they’re staying locally, and the purpose of their trip.

 What is the SG doing about the targeting of Africans in China, documented on Instagram and elsewhere? And comment on that Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, says he has partnered with an American businessman to airlift Africans being mistreated in China.  This is after reports emerged of hundreds of Africans evicted from their homes and hotels in the Chinese city of Guangzhou over fears the coronavirus was spreading in African communities.  What is the SG doing is anything about Kenyans living in China are still being evicted from their homes despite a formal protest by Kenya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kenyans in China Organisation said landlords are handing out eviction notices in southern parts of the country particularly in Guangzhou

On Cameroon, that COVID-19 scare hits Kondengui prison as four inmates die, several evacuated-  An inmate named Innocent has passed away. Innocent, another inmate says died after he spent “almost two weeks lying in the health centre in prison.”  The Anglophone from Sabga in the North West region is one of four inmates to die in the facility within 24 hours, a phenomenon other inmates say is strange and scary. What is the SG's response to dead bodies stored in prison bathrooms in Cameroon that prisoners, including political prisoners, are forced to use? See, e.g., here.

  On Western Sahara, on the continued conditions of detention of Saharawi political prisoners by Morocco.  On the criticism of Renata Lok  Dessallien made by her new "host country" and how she got that promotion, given under performance on Rohingya;  On the US Congressional request for documents from WHO, and why they - and the UN Secretariat - have no FOIA procedure at all;  And, again, on WHO's Bruce Aylward refusing to answer Taiwan question. And now to that "the next appropriations bill, there's not going to be any money for the WHO. I'm in charge of the appropriations subcommittee. I'm not going to support funding the WHO under its current leadership. They've been deceptive. They've been slow and they've been Chinese apologists," [Senator Lindsay] Graham said.

Again, why was Gulbenkian (and thence CEFC China Energy) omitted from SG's public financial disclosures covering 2016? On Sri Lanka's scam Covid-19 body chaired by unelected, mass killing connected Basil Rajapaksa? 

On Zambia, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Melissa Fleming on that on April 9, the Independent Broadcasting Authority, Zambia’s broadcasting regulator, cancelled Prime TV’s license “in the interest of public safety, security, peace, welfare or good order,” according to a statement from the regulator. The statement said that Prime TV must surrender its license and cease broadcasting immediately. On the same day, police arrived at the outlet's office in Lusaka, the capital, and forced staffers to leave the building and barred them from returning, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who said that employees had not been able to return as of today.  Prime TV, a popular television station known for its critical coverage of the government, had recently been covering the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On Saudi Arabia, what is the SG doing about that thousands of undocumented Ethiopian migrants are being deported from Saudi Arabia amid efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.  For Ethiopian migrants working in Saudi Arabia without the necessary permits, deportation is an ever-present possibility.  Since the Saudi government began cracking down on what it called "illegal expatriates" in 2017, tens of thousands have been regularly sent back home.  After a two-week hiatus, Saudi’s efforts to return the Ethiopian migrants have resumed.  More than 2,000 migrants arrived in the capital Addis Ababa in the first half of April with more expected in the coming weeks.


On Mali, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said  Mali has reported 56 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including two in MINUSMA - please provide more information on these two, and what safeguards the UN has taken - and in South Sudan. On Cameroon, that Biya has not been seen since March 11.

Also on Cameroon, that Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and Co. express fear of contrating COVID 19 at Yaounde Principal prison  None of the guards they say "have face masks, gloves or other personal protective equipment and they move from one cell room to another”  ? Belatedly provide SG comment and action if any on that President Paul Biya's silence in the face of the coronavirus crisis is causing controversy in Cameroon. Why did Guterres list Cameroon on his April 3 bragging, when Biya's Army continues killing? The inhabitants of Okoyong village in Mamfe, South West region are still mourning the brutal killing of four boys by government soldiers.  Sources say the boys were pulled from a restaurant and killed with live ammunition.? On WHO's Bruce Aylward blatantly avoiding question about Taiwan and virus response, which Inner City Press asked USG Fleming about online on March 28. On the egregious State of Emergency Law which poses a grave threat to human rights in Cambodia? On that in Uganda On March 25, 2020, the government banned public transport and non-food markets. Prior to that it had closed all bars and instituted a mandatory quarantine in hotels for Ugandans returning from high risk countries, for which those in quarantine initially had to pay for. The government has also closed public court hearings.  On March 30, President Yoweri Museveni announced several additional measures, including a nighttime curfew, banning the use of all privately-owned vehicles, and closing shopping malls and non-food stores for 14 days.  The next day, Richard Karemire, the Ugandan army spokesman, announced that the police, the army, and an armed community-policing paramilitary group called the Local Defense Unit (LDU), coordinated by the Ugandan army, would conduct patrols to help enforce the directive. However, security forces have used excessive force, including beating, shooting, and arbitrarily detaining people across the country.  Please immediately state why SG Guterres did not ensure, or apparently even inquire, if UN staff and the families had needed masks before in a publicity stunt giving them away to Penny A and the City's UN office?  Outraged staff have asked banned Inner City Press. And on the March 25 fundraiser, why is there no disclosure of USG Melissa Fleming among the most recent public financial disclosures? Why none for Mark Lowcock? None for Henriette Fore? How can the UN raise money on this opaque basis? Please explain the break down of the March 27 GA/ECOSOC/UNSC meeting livestream, and how questions were selected.  "AGAIN: please immediately state the conditions and mitigation for the lay off of all Delegates Dining Room staff which Inner City Press reported yesterday after being contacted by staff complaining there is no mitigation of economic harm. On Mali, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Mali held its long-delayed parliamentary election on Sunday despite an insurgency in its central and northern regions, concerns about coronavirus and the recent kidnapping of the main opposition leader? On Burundi, what are the comments and action if any of SG Guterres and USG Fleming on that Burundian member of Parliament Anglebert Ngendabanka threatens to physically eliminate (“crush the head” according to his words) journalists from the press? What of that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not shared with member states information Taiwan has provided on the coronavirus including details on its cases and prevention methods, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry said on Monday (March 30), ratcheting up its complaints? And on that  "Hong Kong’s government said public broadcaster RTHK breached its charter by asking the World Health Organization about Taiwan’s membership, a move democracy advocates criticized as a new government effort to muzzle the press.  The Commerce and Economic Development Bureau said Thursday that Radio Television Hong Kong’s interview with WHO official Bruce Aylward violated the principle that Taiwan belongs to “one China.” A now-viral video of Aylward’s awkward exchange with the RTHK presenter put renewed focus on China’s efforts to prevent Taiwan from cooperating with the global health agency during the pandemic.  
 What is SG Guterres' comment and action if any of China sinking the Vietnamese fishing vessel? 

April 7-1a: What is the SG doing about that in Tunisia, migrants in an irregular situation residing in the Ouardia reception and orientation Centre, on Monday, staged a strike protesting living conditions in the Centre?  April 7-1a: On the UN system's development programs, what are the responses of SG Guterres and separately DSF Amina J. Mohammed to the UK DFID letter Inner City Press has published that "UK DFID's Nick Dyer in an April 1 letter to Steiner obtained by Inner City Press:  "Examples of UNDP reform behaviours reported by DFID country included: • UNDP making the transition for RCs challenging – denying the RC access to their vehicles etc

April 7-1b: What are SG Guterres' comments and actions if any on the indictment of Maduro on drug charges, and again what were Gutterres' discussions with Honduras president JOH, whose brother has been convicted in the SDNY of drug trafficking (sentencing now set April 15 or May 15) and has himself been alleged to be a conspirator? What about the money your office bragged about from Honduras, given the proof JOH took money from El Chapo? Now in April, on Twitter stating that ""Twitter Safety @TwitterSafety We discovered many inauthentic accounts were accessing Twitter from a single IP range in Honduras, and heavily Retweeting the President’s account. We removed 3,104 accounts when it became clear a staffer created the fake accounts on the government’s behalf"? Any comment on the reported death of former Honduras president (also convicted of FIFA corruption) Rafael Callejas? And the new FIFA indictments in the EDNY court in Brooklyn, with respect to Qatar? 

April 7-2: On Cameroon, what are the comments or actions if any of SG Guterres after he took credit for one group's ceasefire in Southern Cameroon on (1) the government not being among 52 sign ons, and (2) that Monday, two civilians, a boy and a man were shot at the Mile 12 area in Bamenda by soldiers? Now, specifically, that Njafect Felix and Febkwi Henry have been shot dead in Nwa, Donga Mantung by Paul Biya's forces. The soldiers surrounded the entire village, harassed civilians and extorted money and valuables. The 2 killed were accused of having alliances with separatist fighters?  On that inhabitants of Okoyong village in Mamfe, South West region are still mourning the brutal killing of four boys by government soldiers.  Sources say the boys were pulled from a restaurant and killed with live ammunition? On that President Paul Biya's silence in the face of the coronavirus crisis is causing controversy in Cameroon. It was his Prime Minister who announced measures to combat the epidemic. Mr. Biya has not yet spoken, unlike his counterparts in neighboring countries? on the holding of an "election" in NW and SW during this Coronavirus crisis? Why did Guterres "take note" of Guinea vote, but not Cameroon? What is his comment and action if any on that the personal engagement of President Paul Biya in the fight against COVID-19 has been questioned by most Cameroonians who say he has been very absent compared to his colleagues accross the Continent. President Paul Biya apart from a recent tweet during which he called on citizens to be calm and respect government’s measures, has neither addressed the issue nor disbursed financial assistance promised by government to effectively fight COVID-19. Yet again,  immediately disclose whose question was cited by Stephane Dujarric in the in-person noon briefing as having been asked triggering condemnation of one-death bombing attributed, rightly or wrongly, to non Paul Biya forces? How is your approach not propaganda, censorship and a cover up of the Biya's government's mass killings?

April 7-2a: On China, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that three Chinese human rights lawyers, Mr. Ding Jiaxi, Mr. Zhang Zhongshun and Mr. Dai Zhenya, have been held by authorities in a form of detention called Residential Surveillance in a Designated Location (RSDL) since they were arrested for attending an informal weekend gathering in the city of Xiamen. At the gathering, they discussed the situation of civil society and politics in China with other lawyers and activists? On that Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wu on Saturday slammed the Hong Kong government for threatening press freedom after one of its officials reprimanded a broadcaster for an interview in which a World Health Organization (WHO) official was pressed on Taiwan's membership.   "It's a disgrace to see this is happening to Hong Kong, a place that used to shine as a beacon of press freedom in East Asia," Wu said? 

April 7-3: On Guinea, what are the comments and actions of SG Guterres, beyond "taking note," on that opposition activists in Guinea say at least 10 people have been killed in street clashes during Sunday's controversial referendum on a new constitution.  Critics said the vote was a ploy by President Alpha Condé to stay in power beyond his mandate.  The deaths occurred in the capital, Conakry, where police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators.  Opposition supporters attacked the police, burned polling centres and destroyed voting equipment.  Mr Condé, 82, insists the new constitution will bring about positive reforms, especially for women.  Many people say they are worried about the vote taking place during the coronavirus outbreak. 

April 7-3a: On the DRC and total lack of trust in the UN, what are the comment and actions of SG Guterres on reports that "civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are resisting the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers despite imminent attacks by rebel groups in the region.  The resistance is the aftermath of a fallout between residents in the town of Beni and the UN Mission for Stabilisation in the Congo (MONUSCO).  This after residents accused the peacekeepers of failure to protect them from repeated attacks" 

April 7-3b: On Qatar, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that nine migrant labourers working on the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died in 2019, the “supreme committee” organising the event has announced, bringing the number of deaths on World Cup projects to 34, since construction began six years ago.  31 of the deaths, including the nine who died last year, are classified as “non-work related”, a term the supreme committee uses to describe deaths that largely occur off the worksite, most of which are attributed to sudden and unexplained cardiac or respiratory failure.  

April 7-4: On UN bribery, again, what are the comments or actions if any of SG Guterres on the March 11 appellate argument by convicted UN briber Patrick Ho of CEFC China Energy in the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals? Why has SG Guterres not amended his disclosure covering 2016 which omit payments from Gulbenkian Foundation which tried to sell its oil company to CEFC? Separately, again, why is there no disclosure of USG Melissa Fleming among the most recent public financial disclosures? Why none for Mark Lowcock? None for Henriette Fore? How can the UN raise money on this opaque basis? 

April 2-5: On corruption and Angola, on which you refused to answer yesterday, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on the Luanda Leaks exposure of Isabel dos Santos of Angola, and as Inner City Press has repeatedly asked, what are his comments and action on the repeated retweeting of Isabel dos Santos' denials by his close staffer Aguinaldo Baptista? After, for example, exposure of the corrupt urban development project near Luanda for which some 3,000 families were driven from their homes to make way for the development? And now after The Portuguese bank EuroBic has announced it will end its business relationship with Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos. 

April 2-6: Immediately describe the role of Angola and the dos Santos family in the campaign of Antonio Guterres to become UNSG. 

April 9-7: On UN sexual exploitation and abuse - alleged - as Inner City Press requested before noon briefing on April 9, immediately provide all if-asked / further information immediately provide the if-asked information about the new sex abuse case data dumped at 10 am on April 9, involving sexual abuse by peacekeeper from Mauritania in CAR, also Cameroon in CAR, Pakistan in Darfur, Tanzania in DRC,  and still UN rape in DRC by Guatemala "peacekeeper," and abuse by Senegal in Haiti, and Gabon and Mauritania in CAR, etc and as Inner City Press asked in writing in 2019 without response, the if-asked information for the report of UN rape in Darfur data dumped to Conduct and Discipline website on the morning of January 17 and the "if asked" information about the two new cases of sexual exploitation in CAR by Cameroonian UN "Police" that were put online after 5 pm on December 30 (a day when you refused to answer 7 questions including on previous UN rapes), and the (Dec 19) rape case by a UN Volunteer in DRC in June 2019 - what nationality? What's been done for the victim(s)? and the Dec 9 sex abuse cases in CAR by Gabon, DRC and Morocco UN "peacekeepers, and the Dec g  about the Office of the Special Envoy for the Sahel, and the two more November 26, 3 pm cases of sexual exploitation in CAR by Cameroon troops in September 2019 (!)

April 6-8: On SG Guterres' Town Hall in Geneva, on which you refused Inner City Press' Dec 20 question, what is your summary of what SG Guterres said given that Inner City Press has now publishing more of it? Please explain SG Guterres' statement that interns should not (ever) be paid, and how this is not create unfair advantage for the most affluent?

April 6-9: As previously and repeated asked, where has UNSG Antonio Guterres been for the past week(s), and how much public money has he spent? Is he going directly to and from Pakistan? Previously from Addis? Or any stop overs? At what cost? Now, immediately disclose any and all costs to the UN including UN Security on the New York trip by Catarina Vaz Pinto Guterres on February 27 - March 1 (or longer). 

April 7-10: On press freedom and COVID-19 and Taiwan / China, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Melissa Fleming on that Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wuon Saturday slammed the Hong Kong government for threatening press freedom after one of its officials reprimanded a broadcaster for an interview in which a World Health Organization (WHO) official was pressed on Taiwan's membership.   "It's a disgrace to see this is happening to Hong Kong, a place that used to shine as a beacon of press freedom in East Asia," Wu said..

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