Sierra Leone: UNGA Urged to Prioritise Humanitarian Aid

15 September 2017

The Ghana Institute of Governance and Security (GIS) has in a press release issued on September 11, 2017 urged the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA), scheduled for 12 to 25 September, to prioritise humanitarian aid amid the prevalence of natural disasters across the world.

"In the past few weeks, the occurrence of natural disasters has and continues to adversely affect a number of African countries and the United States of America. The recent mudslide in Sierra Leone, and landslide in Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed hundreds and displayed millions, as well as the monstrous hurricanes currently ravaging American coastal states and islands one after the other, can pass for one of the world's worst disasters," the release stated.

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