Description
Added on the 10/10/2021 07:30:16 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
In the deadliest shipwreck recorded in 2020, at least 140 migrants have drowned off the coast of Senegal. The UN's International Organization for Migration says the boat was bound for Spain's Canary Islands. It was carrying about 200 people. CNN reports the vessel caught fire a few hours after departing Mbour. It eventually capsized near Saint-Louis, on the Senegalese northwest coast. The IOM is deeply saddened by this recent tragedy, which follows four shipwrecks recorded in the Central Mediterranean last week and another in the English Channel. Statement, United Nations International Organization for Migration CNN reports the Senegalese government and the IOM will travel to Saint-Louis to assess the needs of survivors and provide immediate assistance.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame says the international community had "failed" his country during the 1994 genocide, as he paid tribute to victims of the massacres, 30 years after the vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart his country. SOUNDBITE
Vienna (Austria), Sep 20 (EFE).- (Camera: Alejandro Giménez) The dispute between Iran and the international community over its atomic program, one of the main protagonists of the General Conference of the UN nuclear agency, which begins this Monday in Vienna.FOOTAGE OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE UN NUCLEAR AGENCY IN VIENNA.
Kabul, Sep 9 (EFE/EPA).- Citing the threat of a humanitarian catastrophe, an United Nations official made an appeal Thursday to the international community to unblock aid to Afghanistan that was frozen when the Taliban returned to power nearly 20 years after being ousted by the United States."Billions of assets and donor funds have been frozen," Deborah Lyons, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, said in a briefing for the Security Council. (Camera: STRINGER).B-ROLL OF THE TALIBAN FORCES STANDING GUAR AT THE HAMID KARZAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND THE CHECK POINT IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
Rabat (Morocco), Sep 6 (EFE).- (Camera: Mohamed Siali) Dozens of relatives of Moroccan irregular migrants detained in Libya on Monday organized a sit-in in Rabat to request the intervention of the Moroccan Government to repatriate their children.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN RABAT.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
