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GENEVA, Apr 13 2021 (IPS) - Three recent developments bring about again the reasoning on the dire need to immediately reform the United Nations (UN) and avoid its predictable slide to redundancy.
First, the tragic killing near Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of Italian Ambassador Mr. Luca Attanasio on 22 February 2021 engendered a shock within the diplomatic community. Unfortunately, the assassination of top envoys and diplomats has regularly occurred for a long time.
The emissaries of Xerxes the Great, the fourth Achaemenid Emperor of Persia, were killed by Leonidas I, the King of Sparta, in 481 BC. More recently, Mr. Richard Sykes, Ambassador of the United Kingdom in the Netherlands, was gunned down by a terrorist organization on 22 March 1979.
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China s Growing Influence In Africa Worries United States
Rohling said the US would not cooperate with China but would prefer to be an alternative to the Asian country on the continent.
by Saharareporters, New York
Feb 27, 2021
The United States has said that violent extremist organisations, including Boko Haram and Al-Shabaa, remain a threat to the African continent.
It also said the People s Republic of China s activities in Africa might increase instability in the continent.
African Union
The Deputy Commanding General, United States Army (Europe-Africa) Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling, and the Commanding General, US Army (Europe and Africa), Gen. Christopher Cavoli, said these at a telephonic briefing with journalists on Tuesday.