Secretary-General António Guterres is deeply distressed to hear of the hundreds of lives lost and many others affected by heavy flooding in #Burundi , #Kenya , #Somalia , #Tanzania & other parts of East Africa.
Full statement: un.org/sg/en/content/…

“It is disturbing when one country continues to violate international law with the help of powerful states who say they support human rights.”
- Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

map of gaza solidarity protests at college campuses globally:

The country Colombia not the University Columbia 👇🏽

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The tents are gone, but they left their mark.

Mozambique has assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of May

#sabcnews

The UK has imposed sanctions on the Speaker of Uganda's parliament, as well as two MPs, for alleged corruption.

A statement said they had stolen from the poorest communities in the country and would be subject to travel bans and asset freezes.

More here: bbc.in/3whcU64

BREAKING: Netanyahu told Blinken during their meeting today he won't accept a deal that will include ending the war. He said if Hamas doesn't drop this demand there will be no deal and Israel will invade Rafah, per Israeli and U.S. officials

NEW: White House statement via
Andrew Bates on Columbia University U students taking over a building:

“President Biden has stood against repugnant, Antisemitic smears and violent rhetoric his entire life. He condemns the use of the term “intifada,” as he has the other tragic and…

Columbia University students have been ordered to “shelter in place” as a large group of police officers is amassing outside the gates of campus.

I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass graves in Gaza.
 
Independent investigators must be allowed immediate access.
 
The families of the dead have a right to know what happened.

The world has a right to accountability for any violations of int’l law that may have taken place.

“The war against terror is a war against an idea. And there is no way to destroy or to defeat an idea by the use of military power” – Ami Ayalon

Former Israeli intelligence chief says while Israel might be winning on the battlefield, it is failing to defeat Hamas’s ideology

US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift apnews.com/article/f833a8…

Happening now outside gates of Columbia University

#sabcnews

READ HERE: a summary of the #ICJ Order delivered today on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Nicaragua in the case #Nicaragua v. #Germany tinyurl.com/msp3jnak