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Panama, Feb 18 (EFE) .- The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, called on Tuesday for humanitarian aid for "7 million people who are at risk of hunger" in Venezuela.(CAMERA: Bienvenido Velasco)IMAGES: RESOURCES AND DECLARATIONS OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF OAS, LUIS ALMAGRO"It would be hard for me (to describe) the conditions of the Venezuelan dictatorship, of the 5 million migrants and the 7 million who are at risk of hunger; of the thousands who have been tortured; of the relatives of the 14,000 political prisoners during recent years in Venezuela, in a system of broken doors"
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 number of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the Russian army invaded on February 24 has exceeded two million, says Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at a press conference of UN agencies in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Bogota, Sep 1 (EFE).- Colombia on Wednesday began the face-to-face biometric registration of the more than 1.2 million Venezuelans who have accepted the Special Protection Statute.The registration seeks to regulate the situation of the enormous exodus from the neighboring country that has arrived in recent years. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ). SHOT LIST: VENEZUELANS GO TO COLOMBIAN MIGRATION WORKERS TO CARRY OUT THEIR BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION, CONSISTING OF FINGERPRINTS, FACE PHOTOGRAPHY AND SIGNATURE, IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
Tegucigalpa, Apr 29 (EFE) (CAMERA: Uriel Gudiel).- About 30 million people are poor in Central America, of which 80% are concentrated in the Northern Triangle, a region that requires international assistance to face the pandemic and the effects of climate change that threaten to deprive thousands of their food security.keywords: efe, featured, honduras, economy, crisis, poverty, central america
Caracas, Mar 26 (EFE).- (Camera: Iván Cárdenas) "I do not know anyone infected with Covid-19". This phrase was recurrent in Venezuela, even when the rest of the countries had reached the limits of their health resources. But the trend was reversed, and now, while others are recovering and vaccinating at different rates, the South American nation is suffering and the collapse of the health system is visible.FOOTAGE OF CARACAS.
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