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"This is key
because the 12,600 peacekeeping mission is shaping up to be one of the most
complex and potentially difficult in modern history. A French led intervention
force routed al-Qaeda affiliated groups in Mali's north, and now the French are
largely withdrawing as a UN force takes over. The peacekeeping force must
rapidly fill a security vacuum and prevent a brewing insurgency from taking
hold." UN Dispatch (8/13)
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MSF leaves Somalia, receives threats in DR Congo
Attacks have led
Medecins Sans Frontieres to shutter its aid operations in Somalia. "The closure
of our activities is a direct result of extreme attacks on our staff, in an
environment where armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support,
tolerate or condone the killing, assaulting and abducting of humanitarian aid
workers," said MSF President Unni Karunakara. Meanwhile, MSF aid workers in the
Democratic Republic of Congo are receiving threats and the group has suspended
its operations there. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Reuters (8/14), Devex.com (free registration)
(8/14)
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More effort is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, report
says Countries need
to go beyond their current emissions pledges if the world is to meet its goal of
lowering greenhouse gas emissions and lowering the global temperature, according
to a report from Germanwatch. The pledges would fall more than halfway short of
keeping the planet within the 2-degree-Celsius limit necessary to avoid
potentially dangerous climate effects, the report says. Thomson Reuters Foundation
(8/14)
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