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UN Saunders Who Banned Press Flies Business Class to Central Africa to Blather About Rapes

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Feb 21 –  The corruption and waste of the United Nations under Antonio Guterres continues to spread. While Guterres invokes legal immunity for peacekeepers who rape those they are supposed to protect, just as he invokes immunity for banning the Press from UNHQ in NYC, his envoy on sexual abuse Christian Saunders has just flown to the Central African Republic. How much did it cost? How much did the self promotional video he put on LinkedIn - well read in CAR, to be sure - cost?

The UN complain about having no money, but waste it on useless jaunts costing thousands sending Saunders from New York in business class travel and travel allowances, which instead could easily be done in a Teams/Zoom presentation.  For a one day presentation! Saunders does this constantly because there's nothing useful for him to do in New York.  So why is he there and his post not transferred to Nairobi instead  (like what was done to many UN posts) where it is a lot closer to travel to the majority of missions?


Inner City Press, banned from the UN by Guterres for its reporting,  publishes here a detailed confidential memo / complaint from the UNCLOS-created International Seabed Authority, no answers from Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, see below.

Now in February 2026 Inner City Press is publishing a damning audit of the Int'l Seabed Authority - bogus promotions, overpayments, waste. US Ambassador Mike Waltz is talking "reform, reform, reform" but has had to respond to request he ensure that the Press that most closely reports on UN waste does not remain banned from entering. Audit here, watch this site.

    Inner City Press, still banned from the UN by Guterres, will have more on this.

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