‘America’s Back’ at the Table: Cataloguing the Biden Administration’s First Security Council Presidency
The Security Council Chamber from the vantage point of the council s president. (United Nations Photo, https://flic.kr/p/Rm3qfG; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
In the first four months of his presidency, President Biden has promised to reengage with the world. He has vowed that America will repair its alliances, renew its leadership in international institutions, and restore its partnerships all with the intention of unraveling the Trump-era foreign policy doctrine of “America First” and replacing it with a new mantra: “America’s back.” The slogan has made its rounds in the State Department and has served as the foundation for many statements made by Biden’s most senior foreign policy officials, not to mention the president himself.
U.N. and U.S. demand Eritrean forces leave Ethiopia amid mass killings, rapes and abductions in Tigray
Updated on: March 5, 2021 / 9:39 AM / CBS/AP Humanitarian crisis in Tigray
United Nations U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock warned Thursday that a campaign of destruction is taking place in Ethiopia s embattled Tigray province, saying at least 4.5 million people need assistance and demanding that forces from neighboring Eritrea accused of committing atrocities in Tigray leave Ethiopia. As the Tigray crisis enters its fourth month, Lowcock said, the humanitarian crisis is deteriorating and multiple credible and widely corroborated reports from Tigray. speak of widespread atrocities, involving mass killings, rapes and abductions of civilians, ongoing fighting across the region as well as the destruction of harvests and key agricultural machinery.
Share: An Ethiopian refugee, who fled the Tigray conflict, walks in the Tenedba camp in Mafaza, eastern Sudan, on January 8, 2021, after being transported from the reception center. Photo: by Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images
A civil war in the northern region of Tigray broke out in November. Denial within the international community has prevented much-needed humanitarian aid.
At terrifying speed, a humanitarian disaster of is unfolding in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. Amidst an ongoing civil war that broke out in November, the Tigrayan people are starving en masse. Occupying soldiers are killing, raping, and ransacking, mercilessly and systematically. The personable, reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali who little more than a year ago was basking in the glow of a Nobel Peace prize is driving his country into the abyss. There are indications that he wishes it wasn’t so, but every sign points to the fact that the forces he has unleashed