DR Congo: Agencies appeal for funding for refugee support and Ebola response
news.un.org | 2020-03-06
Urgent resources are needed to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region which are hosting more than 900,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and partners said in a $621 million appeal launched on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1058841

A Green New Deal for South African workers?
Carilee Osborne | zcomm.org | 2020-03-06
COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-green-new-deal-for-south-african-workers-2/

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-03-06
On Tuesday workers held marches to protest attacks on pensions by the Macron government while trade union officials in Zimbabwe are attempting to hold back demands for a general strike against spiralling inflation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/06/work-m06.html

The Neoliberal Plague
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
For those who aren't familiar with Albert Camus' The Plague, disparate lives are brought together during a plague that sweeps through an Algerian city. Today, by way of the emergence of a lethal and highly communicable virus (Coronavirus), we— the people of the West, have an opportunity to reconsider what we mean to one another. The existential lesson is that through dread and angst we can choose to live, with the responsibilities that the choice entails, or just fade away.
counterpunch.org/2020/03/06/the-neoliberal-plague/

Turkish Delight: Playboy Model Reportedly Facing Jail for Stripping Off in Istanbul Mosque
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-06
The contentious internet diva has long been in the viral news headlines for repeatedly baring it all in very different corners of the world. She started off her sassy antics in Luxor, Egypt, and has since been travelling the world flashing her private parts in Turkey, Israel, the US, and even Iceland.
sputniknews.com/viral/202003061078492951-turkish-delight-playboy-model-reportedly-facing-jail-for-stripping-off-in-istanbul-mosque/

'Don't Disturb Him!' Concerns as Tutankhamun's Mummy Could Soon Be Moved Out From Tomb
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-06
There are many mysteries surrounding the life and death of Egyptian teenage Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who was buried in the Valley of the Kings some 3,000 years ago and has remained there until the present day. The many deaths surrounding the discovery of his mummy have often been attributed to the "curse of the pharaohs".
sputniknews.com/science/202003061078496658-dont-disturb-him-concern-as-tutankhamuns-mummy-could-soon-be-moved-out-from-tomb/

Twelve coronavirus cases on Egypt cruise ship are all asymptomatic
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-06
Twelve new cases of coronavirus registered on a Nile cruise ship are all asymptomatic, the health ministry and World Health Organization said in a joint statement on Friday.The individuals are all Egyptian workers on the ship, which is heading to the southern city of Luxor, the statement said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/twelve-coronavirus-cases-on-egypt-cruise-ship-are-all-asymptomatic-3513451

Suicide bombing reported near US Embassy in Tunisia
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-06
A suicide bomber blew himself up near the U.S. Embassy in the Tunisian capital, according to eyewitnesses.The suicide bomber on a motorcycle carried out the attack in Tunis, said the eyewitnesses.Local media reported that the attack targeted a vehicle belonging to the security forces guarding the embassy.Authorities are yet make any official statement about the casualties.*Writing by Zehra Nur Duz…
yenisafak.com/en/world/suicide-bombing-reported-near-us-embassy-in-tunisia-3513448

Join the Palm Sunday rallies for refugees on April 5
Duncan Roden | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-06
Refugees & migrants Kerry SmithIssue 1256 AustraliaMarch 6, 2020There are still 400 refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. With the US deal close to exhausted, those remaining have few hopes of resettlement. After almost seven years their situation is increasingly desperate. | Those in PNG have been moved into…
greenleft.org.au/content/join-palm-sunday-rallies-refugees-april-5

Rudy Giuliani Has Emerged as Trump's Shadow Secretary of State
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-05
Imagine, just for the sake of argument, that the president of the United States was an arrogant, information-challenged, would-be autocrat with a soft spot for authoritarian leaders from China, Russia, and North Korea to Egypt (" my favorite dictator"), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. And then, suppose that very president, while hollowing out the State Department and slamming its d…
truthout.org/articles/rudy-giuliani-has-emerged-as-trumps-shadow-secretary-of-state/

Those Shoes Were Made by a Uighur Detainee
Jasmin Malik Chua | thenation.com | 2020-03-05
Those Shoes Were Made by a Uighur Detainee…
thenation.com/article/world/xinjiang-cotton-forced-labor/

Deadlock broken, South Sudan on road to 'sustainable peace', but international support still key
news.un.org | 2020-03-04
Positive developments in South Sudan have "moved the country further along the road to sustainable peace", the top UN official there told Security Council members on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1058621

After Biden's Super Tuesday Surge, Sanders Campaign Faces Questions About African-American Support
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-04
On Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden swept the South and Midwest, winning Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas, propelled by a huge majority of African-American votes in several states. We host a roundtable discussion on the results with Barbara Ransby, historian, author and activist; Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach; and Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation.
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/4/super_tuesday_african_american_voters_roundtable

DR Congo: With Ebola on the wane, UN agencies prepare to combat coronavirus
news.un.org | 2020-03-03
After more than a year of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials are "cautiously optimistic" that the epidemic in the northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will soon be history as the country gears up to face the emerging threat of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1058551

Declaring commitment to 'peace and stability' for Libya, top UN envoy steps down as stress takes its toll
news.un.org | 2020-03-02
After serving more than two years as the UN's Special Representative in charge of finding a way to a lasting peace in war-torn Libya, Ghassan Salamé – who also heads up the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) – handed in his resignation on Monday, citing failing health caused by the immense stress of the job.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1058471

Headlines for February 28, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-28
California Monitoring 8,400 People for Coronavirus as Fears of Pandemic Grow, Syrian Airstrike Kills 33 Turkish Soldiers in Idlib, Escalating Tensions, New Justice Department Task Force Seeks to Strip Naturalized Immigrants of Citizenship, Joe Biden's Campaign Walks Back False Claims of Arrest in 1970s South Africa, Democratic Superdelegates Overwhelmingly Oppose Bernie Sanders Campaign, Mike Bloomberg Refuses to Apologize for Spying on Muslims, As NYC Mayor, Mike Bloomberg Called for Cuts to Social Security "Ponzi Scheme", ProPublica: Mike Bloomberg Advised Billionaire Sackler Family on Opioid Crisis, Emails Sho…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/28/headlines

Doctors Without Borders: Cheap Coronavirus Diagnostic Kits Needed in War-Torn Areas & Refugee Camps
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-28
Across the U.S., officials report a severe shortage of test kits for coronavirus. New York officials say they're preparing their own kits, after kits distributed by the Centers for Disease Control failed validation tests. Meanwhile, new cases of coronavirus continue to spring up worldwide, with Nigeria reporting its first case and one of Iran's vice presidents testing positive. We discuss how MSF USA, or Doctors Without Borders USA, is responding to coronavirus, with the organization's executive director, Avril BenoàÆt.
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/28/avril_benoit_msf_usa_coronavirus