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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits refugees in southern Algeria to help restart negotiations over the fate of Western Sahara. Diane Hodges reports.
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
The head of the IMF warns that Western subsidies to combat climate change and encourage the transition to clean energy sources risk hitting developing and emerging markets. "My biggest concern is that something that in principle is very good to accelerate the transition to the green economy by using public money to step up private investment... may not serve well the emerging markets and the developing world," Kristalina Georgieva says at the World Economic Forum in Davos. SOUNDBITE
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi strongly condemns the British government's plan to send migrants who arrived illegally in the UK to Rwanda. "We believe that this is all wrong, this is all wrong this deal for so many different reasons", says Filippo Grandi during a press conference in Geneva, a day before the first UK-Rwanda flights are scheduled to take place. SOUNDBITE
Madrid, Jul 2 (EFE).- (Camera: Juan Yagüe) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Friday it was “absolutely essential” to revive a political dialogue on Western Sahara amid rising tensions in the region.INTERVIEW WITH ANTONIO GUTERRES.Translation:"We are really making an effort so that we can finally have a special envoy to revive the political process in Morocco. We had 13 candidates that were rejected by one of the parties. It is absolutely essential to restart the process of political dialogue because the current situation isn't sustainable and is a factor for instability, riks in an area where there is a strong risk of terrorism. It's absolutely essential to find a political solution and for that, we need to restart the political dialogue and it's essential both parties accept the envoy."