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WEEK OF VICTORIES at the White House!
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Spokesperson Tammy Bruce: For this week’s Big Takeaway, I discuss how the State Department is working hard every day to keep America, and Americans, safe. From designating foreign terrorist organizations to imposing sanctions, we’re taking action to protect and secure our nation for your families, friends, and future.
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Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
People of African Descent
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Syria
Sudan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Colombia
International Maritime Organization
Passover
International Day of Human Space Flight
Financial Contributions
PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT
On Monday at 10 am, the 4th session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent that will kick off here at Headquarters under the theme “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence”. We will have the Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray will deliver the Secretary-General’s remarks.
Over one thousand participants have registered to attend the session which will continue until Thursday next week. There will be discussions on reparatory justice for Africa and people of African descent; human rights of women and girls of African descent; policymaking and systemic racism; digital justice, as well as on the bicentennial of the “Haitian independence debt.” Side events and cultural performances are also planned.
A report on the Forum will be presented both to the Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly later this year. As usual, the meetings will all be broadcast on the UN webcast platform.
MYANMAR
In Myanmar – and just two weeks after the country was hit by two earthquakes, we and our partners have launched a $275 million appeal, which is an addendum to the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan to reach 1.1 million people with urgent aid and assistance.
The earthquakes have pushed 2 million human beings into critical need of assistance and protection – that’s in addition to the 19.9 million people who were estimated to need humanitarian aid prior to this disaster.
UN agencies, partners and Member States, have rapidly mobilized aid – including medical care, shelter, safe water, hygiene kits, and food.
To further strengthen efforts on the ground, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated an additional $5 million for the earthquake response, on top of the $5 million already provided a few weeks ago.
And the UN Human Rights Office today said civilians are continuing to suffer as military operations persist, despite ceasefires declared after last month’s tragic earthquake.
At a moment when the sole focus should be on ensuring humanitarian aid gets to disaster zones, the military is instead launching attacks, that was what our human rights colleagues said. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the military to remove any and all obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian assistance and to of course cease military operations.
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Moving to the situation in Gaza, our humanitarian colleagues tells us that earlier today, Israeli authorities issued two new displacement orders covering vast areas in northern and southern Gaza. Together, these areas span more than 24 square kilometres – roughly the size of everything south of Central Park here in Manhattan.
Several medical facilities and storage sites containing critical supplies are located within the newly designated displacement zones. And OCHA warns that this could have life-threatening consequences for people in urgent need of care.
With this latest development, OCHA reports that more than two thirds of the Gaza Strip is either under active displacement orders or designated as “no-go” zones – that’s areas where humanitarian teams are required to coordinate their movements with Israeli authorities.
This leaves Palestinians with less than a third of Gaza’s area to live in – and that remaining space is fragmented, it’s unsafe and it’s barely livable following 18 months of hostilities, which are ongoing. Overcrowded shelters which are in terrible conditions, service providers are struggling to operate, and resources are being depleted.
The UN Human Rights Office today said that the nature and scope of the Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza raise serious concerns that Israel intends permanently to remove the civilian population from these areas in order to create a “buffer zone.”
OCHA reminds us that today marks 40 days since Israeli authorities imposed a full closure on the entry of cargo into Gaza. Since then, no one – including we and our humanitarian partners – have been permitted to bring in supplies, regardless of how critically needed those items may be.
Everything is running extremely low: Bakeries have shut down, life-saving medicines have run out, and water production has been drastically reduced.
Israel, as the occupying power, as the Secretary-General said earlier this week, has clear obligations under international law, and these include ensuring food, medical care and public health services are available.
Full highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=11%20April%202025
Press Conference by Shaun Hughes, World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Emergency Coordinator for the Sudan Crisis, on the situation in Sudan.
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Senior World Food Programme (WFP) official in Sudan Shaun Hughes said, “By any metric, this is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in terms of displacement,” adding that “four out of every five people displaced are women and children.”
Hughes briefed reporters remotely from Nairobi today (10 Apr) on the situation in Sudan.
He said, “12.7 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Over eight million people displaced internally, and four million across borders arriving to countries that are already facing high levels of hunger and humanitarian needs.”
In terms of hunger, the WFP official said, “this is the only place in the world where famine is currently confirmed, and only the third famine to be classified this century.”
Hughes continued, “The scale of what is unfolding in Sudan threatens to dwarf much of what we’ve seen over previous decades. In the Zamzam camp alone, which has been under siege for several months. There are over 400,000 people.”
The Regional Emergency Coordinator added, “Across the country, nearly 25 million people, or half the population, face extreme hunger. Nearly five million children and mothers are acutely malnourished.”
“This is a man-made crisis, man-made because it is driven by conflict, not by drought or floods or earthquakes, and man-made because of the obstruction of access to humanitarian assistance by parties to the conflict,” the WFP official stressed.
Hughes highlighted that WFP’s goal is to scale up to reach seven million people by mid-year, “focusing primarily on those 27 areas that are classified as in famine or risk of famine.”
He continued, “we need to be able to quickly move humanitarian assistance to where it is needed, including through frontlines, across borders, within contested areas, and without lengthy bureaucratic processes.”
“We need to re-establish offices and staff presence across all areas of the country, including the Darfur and Kordofan states, so that we can be close to the people we serve and monitor assistance and the situation as it unfolds. We need to be able to obtain visas for staff and custom clearances for goods and equipment,” the WFP official added.
He stressed that humanitarian agencies alone don’t have the influence to negotiate this, “it requires the world to pay attention and coherent and tenacious engagement from the international community, particularly countries that have influence on those waging war.”
The Regional Emergency Coordinator for Sudan Crisis, World Food Programme (WFP):
For the next six months in Sudan, in order to reach the objective of assisting seven million people, WFP has an 80 percent funding gap amounting to $650 million and another $150 million shortfall to take care of people that are fleeing across borders into Chad, into South Sudan, into the Central African Republic and elsewhere.
“Without funding, we’re faced with the choice to either cut the number of people receiving assistance, or to cut the amount of assistance that people receive,” Hughes said.
He explained that the cut is already happening. “This month, we’ve reduced rations in famine areas to 70 percent of what people need, and in areas that are at risk of famine to 50 percent. The funding we need is not only for food assistance, but also for the joint services that we provide to the broader humanitarian response, including humanitarian air services and logistics services,” Hughes said.
Asked about the funding gap, the WFP official said, “none can be attributed to the broader cuts in US foreign assistance. Fortunately, all allocations that the US government has made to Sudan remain effective, for which we are grateful.”
“I think more broadly that the outlook globally for funding of humanitarian assistance is quite disastrous due to a number of changes in the approach by donors,” he concluded.
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
This Week: President Trump signs Executive Orders aimed at achieving the Administration’s goal of American Energy Dominance with a renewed focus on coal, and Interior gets to work to make them happen; Interior announces the disbursement of more than $13 million in grants to support the reclamation of abandoned mine lands in North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas; Interior releases updated oil and gas reserve estimates for the Gulf of America’s Outer Continental Shelf; Secretary Burgum holds his first All Hands meeting at Interior’s historic Yates Auditorium; U.S. Geological Survey crews are deployed to monitor flood impacts after storms dumped heavy rain across portions of the southeast and Midwest; it’s been guiding mariners to safety for more than a century and a half, now it’s our social media Picture of the Week! Make sure you follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X!
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Brandy Goodwin, a dedicated nurse with deep roots in the Native American and Veteran communities, is bridging health care gaps for tribal Veterans in Eastern Oklahoma.
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Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell offers a snapshot into major happenings across the DOD this week.
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The Speaker of the House of Commons has granted a request from the Government to recall the House at 11am on 12th April for the House to consider legislative proposals to ensure the continued operation of British Steel blast furnaces is safeguarded.
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‘Transforming in Contact’ is the U.S. Army’s modernization strategy focused on enabling soldiers to adapt and innovate during ongoing operations, allowing it to evolve and improve faster than the enemy.
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Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Neil Kinnock, Lord Kinnock, reflects on his time as leader of the Labour Party in the latest Lord Speaker’s Corner, including some of his regrets.
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Briefing by Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, on the situation in the Middle East.
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Briefing the Council, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Khaled Khiari noted that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have “publicly confirmed it has built multiple positions in the area of separation on the Golan” and “Israeli officials have also spoken about Israel’s intentions to stay in Syria for the foreseeable future.”
Such facts on the ground, Khiari said, “are not easily reversed” and “threaten Syria’s fragile political transition.”
He recalled the Council’s Presidential Statement of 14 March, “which reaffirmed a strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria.”
Khiari said, “Syria’s opportunities to stabilise after 14 years of conflict must be supported and protected. For Syrians and for Israelis, this is the only way regional peace and security can be realised.”
Briefing by Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, on the situation in the Middle East.
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Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the Security Council that “it remains critical that all parties uphold their obligation under the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement in the areas of separation and limitation between Syria and Israel” and said, “there should be no military forces or activities in the area” other than those of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
He said, “The situation in the UNDOF area of operations since the closed security Council consultation on UNDOF on the 19th of March has remained volatile and continues to be characterised by significant violations of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement with the entry of the Israeli Defence Forces, IDF, into the area of separation since the 8th of December.”
He said the IDF “also continue to impose some restrictions of movement on UNDOF and Observer Group Golan personnel in the area of separation, where restrictions on the movement of people residing in the area also continue.”
He also reported that “residents in some areas have protested disruptions from IDF activities, including farming, detention of civilians and seizure of large numbers of livestock.”
SYRIA
Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari told the Security Council this morning that there have been hundreds of reported Israeli airstrikes across Syria since 8 December of last year. He added that at dawn on 3 April, there were reports that Israel carried out multiple airstrikes across Syria, including in Damascus, the Hama Military Airport, and the T4 military airport in Homs.
Mr. Khiari recalled the Security Council’s 14 March presidential statement on Syria and said that Syria’s opportunity to stabilize after 14 years of conflict must be supported and protected, for Syrians and for Israelis.
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Jean-Pierre Lacroix also briefed the Security Council, telling them that the Israel Defence Force (IDF) currently occupies 12 positions that they established on the Bravo side – 10 in the area of separation and two in the area of limitation in the vicinity of the Bravo line. They also continue to construct counter-mobility obstacles along the ceasefire line, and have flown, on several occasions, aircraft across the ceasefire line and helicopters into the area of separation, he said.
Mr. Lacroix emphasized that it remains critical that all parties uphold their obligations under the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement, including by ending all unauthorized presence in the areas of separation and limitation, as well as refraining from any action that would undermine the ceasefire and stability on the Syrian Golan.
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
In Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that hostilities across the Strip are taking a horrifying toll on civilians – depriving people of safety and the means for their survival. There have been daily reports of Israeli strikes killing and injuring many Palestinian civilians.
Just yesterday in Gaza City, there were reports of dozens of people killed – including at least eight children – after an Israeli strike hit a residential building. Many are still missing under the rubble. OCHA stresses that civilians must be protected under international law and should never be a target.
For its part, the World Health Organization has been able to support some medical evacuations from Gaza. Yesterday, 18 patients and nearly 30 companions were allowed to exit to seek specialized treatment abroad. However, with some 12,500 patients in Gaza still in need of medical evacuation outside the Strip, WHO calls for them to be able to do so through all available border crossings and corridors.
As supplies inside the Strip near exhaustion and the situation becomes increasingly dire, we have seen an increase in looting over the past few days. Earlier this week, several such incidents were reported in Rafah, and Deir al Balah, and Al Zawaida.
Once again, OCHA reiterates the urgency of reopening the crossings to allow critical supplies to enter.
More than 60,000 children are reportedly suffering from malnutrition, at a time when community kitchens are rapidly running out of fuel and supplies.
Across Gaza, partners are also warning of acute water shortages in shelters hosting displaced people. The loss of water – together with the lack of cleaning supplies and cohabitation with livestock – are having a dire public health impact. In March, more than one third of households in Gaza experienced lice infestations.
Meanwhile, our humanitarian partners in Gaza have identified more than a dozen unaccompanied and separated children this week. They are doing everything possible to reunite these children with their families.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/ossg/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=10+April+2025
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Fairfax County convicted this statutory rapist of “consensual sex with a child.” Ander Cortez-Mendez originally faced charges of having sex with a child between the ages of 13-14 years old.
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March 18, 2024 — We lodged a detainer against this illegal Guatemalan sex offender with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.
May 20, 2024 — A Fairfax County judge gave him a 3-month sentence — then suspended it!
Fairfax County didn’t honor our detainer — instead, they released him back into the community.
Source: United States of America – Department of State (video statements)
President Trump continues to put American workers first by bringing trading partners around the world to the table with a fresh perspective to achieve reciprocity and fairness. Many negotiations are now underway.
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Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, Lord Kinnock, reflects on changes in politics, including social media and growing intimidation in the latest Lord Speaker’s Corner.
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The USCGC JAMES (WMSL 754), conducts a drug offload of approximately 24 tones (20.24 metric tons) at the Port Everglades, April 9, 2025.
44,628 pounds (20.24 metric tons) of cocaine and 3,886 pounds (1.76 metric tons) of marijuana were seized in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with a combined value of nearly $509.7 million.