He patiently listened to the long history of a family forced to migrate for 18 years all over North Africa: from conflict in their home, in Somalia, the Middle East, to Libya, where they were detained over the past five months. To get to the field of Chouca finally exhausted, on the border with Tunisia.
There they found a conversation partner a bit 'special, in fact, listened to them: Angelina Jolie (which should give a prize for his work as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commission for Refugees). "I hope you can finally find home," said Jolie in their visit to the camp for a couple of days (he sported a tattoo chatted mysterious, perhaps a sign of a new adoption).
He met "the Egyptians, Eritreans, Libyans and other people of many nationalities. The camp is run well, considering the difficulty of having so many different cultural backgrounds forced to live together. " There is talk of 400 thousand refugees arrived from Libya during the past month alone, "and 2 thousand other border crossings per day.
The emergency will not end soon, we can not allow the necessary funds to dry, "he continued Angelina. Three months ago the spotlight on Africa maneuvered them George Clooney, during the sensitive election in Sudan for the separation into two states. His commitment (independent of the UN and governments) has reached the maximum when he even decided to buy a satellite (Sat Sentinel) to monitor military movements.
With this tool has recently been brought to the attention of the media attack the forces of the Muslim North to conquer the area of Abyei, in the middle of the border dispute. Reasons which, to Clooney, combined with some experience in the field that has influenced Obama (Senator John Kerry sent to Khartoum).
A better strategy than that of Madonna (in the middle of a storm on his non-profit organization in Malawi), confirming a trend at least since Bob Geldof's Live Aid. It was July 13, 1985 and the famine in Ethiopia was putting the country on their knees. Similarly other humanitarian and environmental tragedy had its willing (and prepared) celebrity sponsors: DiCaprio to the tsunami in Thailand, Ben Affleck for the Congo (with its Eastern Congo Initiative), Brad Pitt at the time of Katrina (the his Make It Right Program continues to rebuild homes in New Orleans), James Cameron and Robert Redford at the time of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and Sean Penn for Haiti (JP founded the Haiti Relief Organization along with philanthropist Diana Jenkins and is often this field one year after the tragedy).
Recent developments provide only hope, then, that a familiar face is a little 'time to give voice to the Ivory Coast, in the middle of civil war due to lack of handover between the former president (who refuses to leave ) and the newly elected during the last presidential election. For now only echo the words of Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, which launched the emergence in recent days, complaining about the lack of attention from the media.
There they found a conversation partner a bit 'special, in fact, listened to them: Angelina Jolie (which should give a prize for his work as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commission for Refugees). "I hope you can finally find home," said Jolie in their visit to the camp for a couple of days (he sported a tattoo chatted mysterious, perhaps a sign of a new adoption).
He met "the Egyptians, Eritreans, Libyans and other people of many nationalities. The camp is run well, considering the difficulty of having so many different cultural backgrounds forced to live together. " There is talk of 400 thousand refugees arrived from Libya during the past month alone, "and 2 thousand other border crossings per day.
The emergency will not end soon, we can not allow the necessary funds to dry, "he continued Angelina. Three months ago the spotlight on Africa maneuvered them George Clooney, during the sensitive election in Sudan for the separation into two states. His commitment (independent of the UN and governments) has reached the maximum when he even decided to buy a satellite (Sat Sentinel) to monitor military movements.
With this tool has recently been brought to the attention of the media attack the forces of the Muslim North to conquer the area of Abyei, in the middle of the border dispute. Reasons which, to Clooney, combined with some experience in the field that has influenced Obama (Senator John Kerry sent to Khartoum).
A better strategy than that of Madonna (in the middle of a storm on his non-profit organization in Malawi), confirming a trend at least since Bob Geldof's Live Aid. It was July 13, 1985 and the famine in Ethiopia was putting the country on their knees. Similarly other humanitarian and environmental tragedy had its willing (and prepared) celebrity sponsors: DiCaprio to the tsunami in Thailand, Ben Affleck for the Congo (with its Eastern Congo Initiative), Brad Pitt at the time of Katrina (the his Make It Right Program continues to rebuild homes in New Orleans), James Cameron and Robert Redford at the time of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and Sean Penn for Haiti (JP founded the Haiti Relief Organization along with philanthropist Diana Jenkins and is often this field one year after the tragedy).
Recent developments provide only hope, then, that a familiar face is a little 'time to give voice to the Ivory Coast, in the middle of civil war due to lack of handover between the former president (who refuses to leave ) and the newly elected during the last presidential election. For now only echo the words of Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, which launched the emergence in recent days, complaining about the lack of attention from the media.
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