Atrocity Alert No. 261: Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria and Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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COVID-19 SURGES IN MYANMAR AS MILITARY JUNTA ATTACKS HEALTH WORKERS
Myanmar is in the midst of a catastrophic wave of COVID-19 infections, with the number of new cases rising daily and the positivity rate reaching more than 30 percent among those tested for the virus. The country’s health system is unable to deal with the surge in infections and deaths.
Since the military deposed Myanmar’s civilian-led government on 1 February, they have reversed any progress made in containing COVID-19. The security forces’ violent crackdown, which has killed more than 900 civilians, has driven many medical professionals underground. On 7 July the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, warned that, “Myanmar is at grave risk of becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader state, impacting untold numbers of people both inside and outside of its borders.”
ACLED Regional Overview – Africa (3 - 9 July 2021) - Burkina Faso
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NEMA Distributes Relief Items to Victims of Boko Haram Attack in Adamawa Community
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At Least 20 Nigerians Killed in Terror Attack
07/09/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On July 7th Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Africa, attacked communities in Adamawa State, Nigeria, killing no fewer than 20 people.
Daily Sun reported that the suspected terrorists fired gunshots in Dabna to announce their arrival.
“Residents scampered for safety as sporadic gunshots were heard in different parts of the community,” Adamu Isa, a survivor of the attack and a resident of Hong, told the Daily Sun.
Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed the attack and expressed his grief towards the innocent lives that were taken.
“This level of savagery, inhumanity and reckless disregard for the sanctity of life cannot go unpunished,’’ said Buhari. “
Ring True BY Yemi Adebowale Email: yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com Phone 08054699539
339. As at press time, that’s the number of students from three schools languishing in the dungeons of bandits in Niger, Kebbi and Kaduna states. There are hundreds of others from unrecorded abductions, still with kidnappers. Hundreds of children are being abused in forests and all we get are rhetoric from a lame federal government that controls all the security agencies in the country. While we sleep in the comfort of our rooms, hundreds of our children are with beasts in the forests. The latest addition to the number of our children in the forest is the 121 taken from Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State. The bandits strolled into the school, operated for over an hour unchallenged, and walked out with 121 children. It can only happen in Nigeria.