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A Crisis in Timor-Leste Reveals the Hollowness of ‘Build Back Better’ Rhetoric
Despite invocations to envision a better, more equal world in the wake of COVID-19, global inequalities remain deeply entrenched.
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April 16, 2021
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A view of Ataúro Island from the hills above Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste.
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Over the Easter weekend, as the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines was expected to arrive in Timor-Leste’s capital of Dili, Tropical Cyclone Seroja arrived instead. It brought one of the most devastating flash floods in recent memory, sweeping across Timor-Leste and parts of Eastern Indonesia, killing hundreds and displacing thousands. Concerns that Dili’s Presidente Nicolau Lobato Airport would be too inundated with water to receive the vaccine shipment spread across social media as the 9,000 people who lost th