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Japan provides thermography camera in Kenya to prevent COVID-19 spread Japan provides thermography camera in Kenya to prevent COVID-19 spread 23 April 2021 | News The camera is used to measure the surface body temperature of refugees and local residents living in the district Source: nec.com Japan based NEC Corporation announced a collaboration between NEC XON, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations programme that promotes better quality of l...

She said it is important that resources are readily made available for response in case of emergencies. Speaking when she chaired the Disaster Management Council of Ministers virtual meeting, the Vice President stated that with the intensified rains, the country is expected to experience floods, washed away bridges and blown off roofs among other calamities that will negatively affect a lot of families. Mrs Wina said the country is also at risk of the cholera outbreak and other water borne dise...

Project coordinator in uganda and josephine fortell and she called me its a project for south sudan and theyre at that conference at welcome to you ladies jane ill start with you just looking at some of the headlines on c.b.s. website for example youve got canned music and don stop any marriage in refugee settlements you also have suicide cases many among south sudanese asylum seekers in uganda which you say that refugees settlements all communities with issues unique to them that local media ju...

Then we ought to be prepared to provide refugee settlements to tens of thousands. thats a tiny number. tragically, the percentage of the numbers have diminished dramatically in this administration, it is enforcement note that the percentage of resettle refugees from muslim majority countries have also plummeted, it is less than 10% while more than the majority of the world refugees are from muslim countries. this is an indication of americas responsibility. >> eric schwartz, thank you for your g...

Cuts to protect u.s. interests. i want to take a look at just what the u.n. budget is and what it does. lets walk over here to the board and i can show you this. the u.n. budget for 2018 tops out at $5.4 billion. the u.s. contributes about 22% of the total budget. contributions are calculated from a formula that is in the united nations charter. next year, the u.s. owes the u.n. about $1.2 billion. meaning that cut to the budget saved the u.s. about $62 million. not that big a deal. where is all...

New report on russian fake news in 2016 and how it roiled a small town in idaho. it all started when there was blame syrian refugees. >> the facts shifted. a gang of syrian refugee men raped a little girl at knife point. websites started pumping out about the town. a form he trump adviser dispatched an visor to the falls. >> most of the coverage we saw contained some bits and pieces of facts. and then a time line filled in with other information. >> the twin falls dwroom seemed to target people ...

Destroy their infrastructure, create refugee settlements which will be patrolled and protected by the national government, syrian army and hezbollah and call them safe zones. were not talking about an air corridor or air exclusion zone where well protect the refugees like in the historical context of humanitarian action. i think hes talking about the assad government doing it, and i dont think he cares one way or the other whether these resistance groups that we have been supporting, as democrat...

When it comes to refugees, both admitting them from other countries to our country and in terms of taking care of them in places close to their home. i have visited refugee settlements outside of syria in jordan, and they are well taken care of there. and the country that provides by far the most financial assist anticipate of any country in the world is the united states. americans should be proud of with a we do to help people who are in difficult situations elsewhere in the world, but we shou...