Navigating Plans and Opportunities: Looking Ahead to 2025
Changing holiday plans, given the work challenges.
Preparing for the European Humanitarian Forum.
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2025: Happy New Year
Best wishes for 2025 to all the readers of the blog.
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Farewell to 2024: A Year of Challenges, Growth and Gratitude
Reflections on my 2024, hopes for 2025. Happy New Year!
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Christmas Stories from South Sudan: A Memory that Haunts and Teaches
Christmas memories of South Sudan. Painful, but happy memories of my life and work in the country.
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La Guaira in Christmas decorations: new photo album
Evening visit to La Guaira reveals the beauty of the town, its architecture and its cultural richness.
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Flash news/Press review:
11.01.2025: Aljazeera on the conflict in Sudan: Sudan military pushes back the rebels from Omdurman. The campaign is part of a new phase of the war that erupted in April 2023, with fighting heavily concentrated in Khartoum and the last contested state in the sprawling western region of Darfur. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
03.01.2025: Poland assumes the the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for first six months of the year. Poland has annouced that the primary focus of its presidency will be around security of the EU.
01.01.2025: Euronews: Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.
21.12. 2024: On December 20, 2024, Sri Lanka’s navy rescued 102 individuals, believed to be Rohingya refugees, found adrift on a fishing trawler off the northern coast. The group, including 25 children and 30 women, was transported to a naval base on Sri Lanka’s east coast, where they received medical care, food, and water.
08.12.2024: Uncertainty in Syria, as rebels approach Damascus and Bashar al-Asaad flees the country.
03.12.2024: Pro EU protests in Georgia meet a violent push back from the government. Al Jazeera: "The political crisis has deepened since its contested October election, with the opposition and the country’s pro-EU president, Salome Zurabishvili, accusing the party of rigging the election. Several Western countries have also questioned its result."
22.11.2024: Euronews: Austria has agreed to lift its long-held veto on the accession of Romania and Bulgaria into the passport-free Schengen Area, which the two Eastern European countries have for years sought to achieve only to be met with Vienna's resistance.
17.11.2024: Euronews: 'President Zelenskyy said on Sunday morning that Russia launched 120 missiles and 90 drones in an attack across Ukraine, targeting its energy infrastructure'.
12.10.2024: The UN Peacekeer shot in Lebanon. In addition, at least 22 people killed at the refugee camp in northern Gaza.
21.09.2024: European Commission President, Urula von der Leyen, proposes the candidates to form the new European Commission. 
08.09.2024: Tensions arise at the border between Belarus and Poland, given new wave of migrants arriving to the European Union.