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element of that? Marie-Luce: During the conflict, the Nigerian government was very anxious to avoid any UN involvement, and the UN did not take initiatives to mediate or intervene. And I think this is clearly linked with the difficulties faced by the UN during the Congo crisis as nobody wanted them to mingle in another secessionist crisis where postcolonial interests were at stake. Actually, this had strong consequences on the humanitarian operations, as the UN absence let
possible to launch ‘the world’s largest humanitarian operation to respond to the worst humanitarian crisis’, whose ‘impact is immediate’, because ‘in half of the districts facing famine, conditions have improved to the point where families are no longer at risk of starvation’ (ONU Info, 21 August 2019 33 ). But without being able to control distribution, the first reports of food-aid diversion and explicit corruption by the Houthi administration are becoming
Introduction This is the story of a meeting between a humanitarian operation and a conspiracy theory, and what happened next. The operation was a search and rescue mission run on the Mediterranean by many different non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including Médecins Sans Frontières, 1 aiming to save the lives of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers lost at sea. The conspiracy theory 2 was that this operation was the opposite of what it