United Nations published this video item, entitled “Briefing on Central Africa and Lord’s Resistance Army – UN Special Representative” – below is their description.
Briefing by François Louncény Fall, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), during the Security Council Open VTC on the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
COVID-19 pandemic “seems generally under control” in the Central Africa region thanks to early measures enforced by the governments to limit the spread of the virus, which are now paying “a high socioeconomic cost,” for implementing those measures, a top UN official told the Security Council in a briefing on Wednesday (9 Dec).
The region reported only 13,470 active cases as of 7 December, for a total of 88,422 cases and 1,614 deaths officially reported since the beginning of the pandemic, François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) said in a virtual meeting of the Security Council dedicated to the situation in the Central African region.
However, he noted, “in recent days the number of infections in some countries have been on the rise again, thus delaying the lifting of some of the restrictions imposed to counter the evolution of the pandemic.”
“The trends across Central Africa clearly indicate that the early measures enforced by the governments of the sub region to contain and reduce the propagation of the pandemic have proven effective,” said Fall. “However, this effectiveness comes at a high socioeconomic cost as the economic slowdown triggered by the pandemic and the different restrictive measures further depleted the already limited capacity of the States to provide basic social services to their populations.”
The Special Representative used the opportunity to “encourage bilateral and multilateral partners” to continue supporting all countries in the sub region to help them control the pandemic and “address its economic, socio-political and security impact.”
Fall also appealed to international financial institutions “to continue to facilitate the release of emergency assistance for all COVID-19 affected countries in Central Africa.”
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