Posted on 11/01/2020 2:39:46 AM PST by xomething
2 workers risked their lives on frontlines to provide critical health services to vulnerable Somali children, UN says
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) confirmed Tuesday that two frontline workers were killed in a militant attack in Mogadishu.
The UN said the polio workers risked their lives to provide critical health services to vulnerable Somali children and offered condolences to the families.
”I offer my sincere condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of two polio workers who were killed in Somalia earlier today. UNICEF condemns the attack in the strongest terms. Humanitarian workers are not a target,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement.
The UN noted attacks on health workers are a violation of international law and must not be tolerated and urged authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation, “Humanitarian workers should never be a target,” it said.
Somalia is among high-risk polio outbreak countries because of its fragile and vulnerable population that mostly includes nomads, displaced people and those living in rural and slum areas.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but Somali-based, al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group, al-Shabaab, has claimed responsibility in the past for similar attacks in the Horn of Africa country.
We’re on the verge of eliminating polio from the face of the Earth the same as was done with smallpox and idiots like this are delaying that end state. Those most impacted are innocent children. Sadly, there will be no consequences for the animals responsible because there is no law and order in that country.
The residents of Portland and other Democrat run cities tolerant of antifa riots should take note of that. Places without law and order (like Somalia) are not fun places to live.
Obama had spies say they were there to vaccinate in Pakistan, when they were looking for the suppose Osama.
Bump
Africans don’t trust any vaccine promoted by Bill Gates,
considering it may have something to do with population reduction. And perhaps they may have good reason for their concerns...
(Gates wants to reduce earth’s population by 90%, to 700 million.)
Actually, to remind everybody, Somalia is another example of failed Socialist experiment.
When run by Mohamed Siad Barre, (1969-1991) it was part of the Soviet Socialist block. Run by the principles of scientific socialism. It never recovered from that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siad_Barre
‘Condemns’?? How supportive of the UN!
It must be very comforting to those who have lost loved ones. /S
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