| Coronavirus Among UN Staff
In South Sudan Is Lied About While No Social
Distancing on UN Bus
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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COURT, April 4 –
The United Nations in South
Sudan has acknowledged that a
staff member has tested
positive for Coronavirus
COVID-19, while claming it is
taking all precautions.
But the
transcript of a meeting with
staff by UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres'
representative in Juba, David
Shearer, leaked to Inner City
Press by outraged staff, shows
for example that the UNMISS
mission has been running
busses for local staff without
social distancing.
They
analogize it to when the UN
brought cholera to Haiti and
then lied about it for years,
and has still to pay any
compensation under Antonio
Guterres "who instead spends
the public's money on his own
trips to Lisbon." Guterres and
his spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming
have refused all Press
questions on this, choosing to
ban critical Inner City Press
and take staged questions from
Xinhua.
Here's a first
part of the transcript from
Shearer's meeting with staff,
after the misleading press
release by Shearer's underling
about COVID-19:
"The United
Nations in South Sudan has
confirmed a case of
coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
among its staff... The UN has
previously imposed a travel
freeze on all staff travelling
into the country, ensured
staff who arrived prior to the
ban are self-quarantined for
14 days, introduced
work-from-home measures to
reduce numbers of people in
offices, and enforced social
distancing rules and frequent
hand washing by all
personnel."
This is false.
From the UN Mission in South
Sudan transcript leaked to
Inner City Press:
Leda Limann:
SRSG, these are national staff
specific. The majority of
UNMISS staff have family
members in Uganda. Can you
please engage with Ugandan
authorities?
SRSG Shearer:
This is a bit tricky because
for national staff, obviously,
their country is here, and we
expect them to work here and
that is why we employ national
staff because they are here. I
think, what we can certainly
look at what happens in the
future, I am in contact with
the Resident Coordinator in
Uganda to see what options
there are to visit family
members. But it is not
possible for the moment to
evacuate people from South
Sudan to Uganda because they
are South Sudanese, that is
why they are here. But we will
look at the possibility of
being able to access their
families. At the moment, we
have got no ability to be
allowed into Uganda. Nobody
has the possibility of
entering Uganda and, likewise,
coming back into South Sudan.
So, we are a bit caught but
let’s see what happens in the
future.
Leda Limann: National staff
use the shuttle bus twice
daily and the social
distancing is not maintained
in the bus. Is the mission
taking any measures on this?
Nope... More of the transcript
is on Patreon here.
The United
Nations held a four speakers,
one M.C. event to raise funds
for itself off of Coronavirus
on March 25. But three
of the participants had
refused to make public even
the UN's bare-bones financial
disclosures: Mark Lowcock,
Henrietta Fore of UNICEF and
Melissa Fleming. The
head man, Antonio Guterres,
has lied on his form, omitting
his financial links to
convicted UN briber CEFC China
Energy. So their credibility
is questionable.
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