Karmen Sakhr

@KarmenSakhr

Head of North Africa Unit in the MENA bureau covering Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Western Sahara. My Tweets express my own views.

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  1. Retweeted
    Jun 20

    👨🏾‍⚕️ 👩🏽‍🍳 👷🏾‍♀️ 👨🏽‍🔬 👮🏽‍♂️ 👩🏾‍🚒 👩🏾‍🏫 👨🏽‍🏭 👩🏽‍🔧 👨🏾‍⚖️ 👩🏽‍💼 👨🏿‍🚒 👩🏾‍✈️ 👩🏼‍🌾 👩🏾‍⚖️ 👨🏾‍🍳 👨🏽‍🎤 🧕🏽 👩🏽‍⚕️ 👩🏾‍🚀 👩🏿‍🏭 👩🏾‍🎤 👨🏿‍💼 👩🏾‍🔬 👨🏽‍🎨 Can you spot the refugee? They are just like you and me

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    Jun 19

    Neste Dia Mundial do Refugiado quer saber o que você faria se fosse forçado a deixar sua casa? 68,5 milhões estão refugiados ou deslocados no mundo. Para solucionar problema, Pacto Global p/ Refugiados será apresentado à Assembleia Geral ONU. Assista ao vídeo:

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    Jun 17

    Rescue at sea is not a choice. Regional disembarkation arrangements must become predictable. The ordeal of the Aquarius must not happen again.

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    Jun 20

    More than 65 million people have been forced to leave home and start over. Often its these circumstances that come to define them. These global citizens are so much more. Visit to show the world you stand for refugee acceptance.

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    Jun 20

    Today is - a day to reflect on the lives of millions of individuals forced to leave everything behind by fear & violence - they can be families, they can be adults or children - in the end, they are human beings who deserve to be met with generosity and openness

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    Jun 19

    68.5m forcibly displaced. Highest on record These are not just statistics.They represent the pain+suffering of men, women, children whose lives have been rocked by conflict+persecution As humanitarians, as humans, we have a responsibility to change this

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  7. Jun 21

    No final fa conta somos irmãos e torçamos para os times sul americanos! Hoje o Brasil joga... precisamos de toda a torcida e apoio moral!

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    , num abrigo de : muita emoção dos torcedores venezuelanos no 1o gol do na
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    Jun 20

    ⬇️Spot the refugee ⬇️ 🧑🏾👶🏻👧🏿👩🏼🧓🏾👧🏻🧒🏽👨🏻👨🏾🧓🏽👴🏻👶🏿🧔🏿👨🏽 👩🏻🧑🏻👶🏽👵🏽👦🏼🧔🏻👩🏿👱🏼‍♀️👵🏼👶🏽🧒🏽👦🏾🧔🏼👴🏼 👧🏽👩🏾👵🏻👶🏾👱🏼‍♂️👦🏽👩🏻🧒🏾🧔🏽👱🏾‍♀️👨🏿🧒🏻🧓🏻🧑🏽 You see? They're just like you and me.

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    Jun 19

    On World Refugee Day, I ask you to remember the millions who were forced to leave their homes. Their story is one of resilience, perseverance and courage. Ours must be of solidarity, compassion and action.

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    Jun 11

    آلاف النازحين الأكثر ضعفاً وحاجةً قد يفقدون المساعدات الإنسانية المنقذة للحياة اعتباراً من منتصف العام الحالي نتيجة ضعف التمويل لعمليات المفوضية في . الحاجة ملحة لتوفير 64 مليون دولار لضمان استمرار برامج الحماية والإغاثة داخل البلاد.

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    Jun 11

    UN High Commissioner for Refugees welcomes Spain's decision to allow Aquarius to dock

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  12. Jun 12

    Gracias España y que lástima Italia... este no es un día de orgullo para ti

    Gracias, España.
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    Jun 11

    UNHCR: Bring Aquarius passengers to land, deal with wider issues later

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    Jun 6

    My name is Pur, and I am an athlete and a . I am giving my first talk this Saturday, 9 June, at a very special place - Kakuma Refugee Camp. I hope you will join me at 10am (EAT) to watch the event live here:

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  15. Jun 7

    Vou procurar onde estão estes projetos durante minha proxima visita ...

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    Você acha que gastronomia 🥙 + empreendedorismo 💲 combinam? O resultado do projeto Open Taste, da Bab Sharki, mostra que essa parceria é um sucesso! ✨
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    Jun 7

    Não podemos deixar que nosso planeta azul seja inundado por plástico. A mudança começa com todos nós. Existem muitas coisas simples que podemos fazer para .

    We cannot let our blue planet be swamped by plastic. Change starts with all of us. There are many simple things we can do to .
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    Jun 6

    قد تباعد بيننا حدودٌ ومسافات، لكن الإنسانية تجمعنا، فنشعر بألم أمٍّ وأولادها شردتهم نيران الحروب، ونحس بمعاناة طفلٍ فقد كل شيء وبقي وحيداً... لأن ، لنصنع الفرق... معاً. بزكاتكم قد تنقذون حياة الآلاف.

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    آلاف العائلات التي تضم أرامل وأيتاماً قد تفقد المعونات الإنسانية الأساسية ابتداءً من يوليو بسبب قلّة التمويل للأزمة السورية. بزكاتكم قد تنقذون حياة الآلاف.
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  18. Jun 2

    This is not a one time story... this is the everyday horror of people in Libya and the nightmare keeping our staff without sleep and working against the clock to help as many as they can!

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    Traffickers kill 12 in : UNHCR helps survivors after "latest horror story" from detention centre escape. Watch spox William Spindler brief the press in Geneva today.
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    May 31

    USD5.6b of required to ensure protection, humanitarian + resilience support to + host communities. Only 28% received to date. Could result in children out of education + more families living in poverty + fewer people earning livelihoods. Deeply concerning.

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    May 31

    Briefing media on crisis: largest + most complex + dynamic in the world. Continued underfunding of the will have significant human consequences on and host communities. Unless funding is urgently received, critical programmes face closure or reduction

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