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Title UN humanitarian chief briefs Security Council on COVID-19 25 Jan 2021 Body A group of women helps to raise community awareness about COVID-19 at the Abnaa Mhin camp for internally displaced people in northern Idleb Governorate, Syria, April 2020. © OCHA In a briefing to the Security Council earlier today on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2532, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said that this year, it is estimated that 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection – 40 p...

Both sides will attempt to work out a phased disengagement and de-escalation plan to end the nine-month-long standoff in Eastern Ladakh

Both sides will attempt to work out a phased disengagement and de-escalation plan to end the nine-month-long standoff in Eastern Ladakh

ECOWAS, Nigeria and the way forward By Fri Jan 22 2021 Keen watchers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would have noticed a silent but revolutionary action taken recently by Nigeria, the economic and political powerhouse in West Africa, as part of efforts to counter a rather disturbing public perception that the regional organisation is losing focus and relevance. Analysts have described ECOWAS of today as lacking in visionary leadership and political will, and that it has become a club of leaders engaged in the protection of their enlightened self-interest to the detr...

According to an official financial statement presented to the ECOWAS Parliament in 2019, Nigeria paid more than $1,177 billion to ECOWAS as a Community Levy contribution in the last 16 years to that date.