| Amid
Niger Coup UN
Guterres Crony
Louise Aubin
still MIA
while Press
Banned from
Santos
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Aug 1–
Amid the coup in Niger, the UN
Resident Coordinator Louise
Aubin has been out of the
country, location undisclosed.
On July 27,
Inner City Press in writing
asked SG Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric to
immediately state where this
UN official is. Dujarric, who
along with Melissa Fleming has
banned Inner City Press from
entering to ask, did not
answer. Nor did Aubin.
Instead,
ill-informed deputy Nicole
Kouassi was streamed into the
largely UN Press Briefing Room
on July 28. She said that she
and UN Niger are not in
contact with military. No one
let in by the UN asked where
Guterres' resident coordinator
is.
This
echoes other Guterres cronies
going MIA - Inger Anderson,
for example, as head of UNEP
left Nairobi during the COVID
pandemic.
It happens
all the time, and the UN
apparently only lets in those
who won't ask about it. So too
for an August 1 "press"
conference, from which the
Press is banned: "1
pm Press Briefing
Room, S-237 Hybrid
Press Briefing by Leonardo
Santos Simão, Special
Representative for West Africa
and the Sahel, Head of United
Nations Office for West Africa
and the Sahel (UNOWAS),
virtually, on situation in
Niger." No provision for
non-insiders to ask questions,
which it is now clear is
possible. The UN censors
Inner City Press
has applied to re-enter to
cover the upcoming UNGA Week,
watch this site.
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