Some of the proposals in the Nairobi Declaration backed by the 15 African leaders who attended the summit and others including United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were standard fare; urging wealthy states to keep their 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance and to operationalise the 'loss and damage' fund agreed on during COP27 last year to compensate the countries and communities worst hit by climate change (AC Vol 63 No 23 Delegates haggle in Egypt as the planet burns)...
South Africa was the runner-up choosing Egypt and Ethiopia as the new African members of the bloc and boosting its campaign for African representation in the IMF World Bank the G20 and the UN Security Council (UN Secretary General António Guterres echoed that at the summit)...
The junta has ignored UN Secretary-General António Guterres' expression of concern about his wellbeing and call for his reinstatement in office...
Vol 64 No 16 |
- KENYA
- HAITI
The Haitian government and UN Secretary General António Guterres have been calling for international support for over a year...
This last point was news to the UN Security Council (UNSC) which on 16 June discussed the latest report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Mali...
Many of them fear along with Secretary-General António Guterres we hear that support for Ukraine's resistance is undermining the UN's role as a conciliator and claim it breaches the UN Charter...
Beyond wide-ranging calls for a ceasefire from UN Secretary General António Guterres and multiple governments the most substantive attempts at mediation are being orchestrated by the Trilateral Mechanism which groups IGAD the AU and the UN Integrated Transition Mechanism in Sudan and a regional effort by Kenya's President William Ruto South Sudan and Djibouti...
DISPATCHES
Of the over 500-gigabyte cache of classified defence documents in the so-called Pentagon leaks a conversation between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his deputy Amina J Mohammed a former environment minister in Nigeria in mid-February has caused consternation in Kenya (AC Vol 61 No 20 Amina misses out again)...
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At February's African Union summit UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders that they were getting a raw deal from the international financial system which charges them 'extortionate' interest rates...
Vol 64 No 5 |
- AFRICAN UNION
After the summit's opening UN Secretary General António Guterres praised climate mitigation actions taken by Comoros and Africa's other small island states...