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Somalia
Inherits UNSC
No Answers on
Somaliland as
Bans Inner
City Press
Like Guterres
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Jan 1 -
The UN Security Council
presidency for January is
being taken over by Somalia -
while Inner City Press remains
banned from the UN, despite
its June 19, 2025 application.
On
December 31 Inner City Press
wrote to the Somalia mission
seeking access to the January
2 "press" conference in the UN
of Ambassador Abukar Dahir
Osman
in order to
ask questions
about
Somaliland and
items on
the UNSC's
agenda:
"I have
questions to
ask on what
you will do
this month
about
Somalialand /
Israel, DPRK,
Gaza, UNRWA
and Rwanda,
Kashmir, DRC,
Greenland,
Sudan,
Ukraine, Ethiopia,
Cameroon,
Yemen and
Libya -
and on ongoing
cases of
sexual abuse
and
exploitation
by UN
peacekeepers,
and Missions'
abuses in NYC,
on many of
which Inner
City Press
first reported
- including
its current
scoops on
Colombia, DRC,
Libya and
Somalia. I
have also
reported on
UNSOS (recent,
and see here)
and a recent
Al Shabaab
sentencing
(Cholo Abdi
Abdullah) in
SDNY court.
And most
recently South
Sudan and
UNECA, and the
verdict
against BNP
Paribas on
Sudan."
No answer,
even as at 5 pm
on January 1
the UN's Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit belatedly
announced the hybrid
- online -
presser at 2pm
on January
2.
Meanwhile
UNSG Antonio
Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric is too lazy to
hold a noon
briefing on
January 2, nor
answer written
questions.
Inner City
Press on June 19 applied
to the UN for access, as it
gives 2500 - according to the
new UN Betrayals book here, to
cover the UNGA week. Inner
City Press has a NYC Press
Pass and writes about the UN.
From Somalia and its UN
Mission, nothing.
Watch this
site.
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