Soldados congoleños y cascos azules de la ONU, en un camino en el Congo el pasado abril.bstirton (Getty Images)
Al menos 60 personas murieron en una matanza en la noche del martes en República Democrática del Congo (RDC) cuando un grupo de milicianos atacó un campamento de desplazados en Ituri, en el noreste del país, según ha confirmado a la agencia Reuters un testigo y el jefe de una ONG local. El presidente del campamento de desplazados de Savo, Ndalo Bise, ha explicado en declaraciones al diario congoleño Publico que los asaltantes irrumpieron en las instalaciones a las 21.00 del martes. “Contamos hasta ahora más de 60 muertos en los alojamientos para desplazados”, ha declarado.
La milicia Cooperativa para el Desarrollo del Congo (Codeco), que afirma defender los intereses de la comunidad lendu y ataca habitualmente a los miembros del grupo hema, es la principal sospechosa de realizar el ataque. Según las fuentes de la agencia Reuters, fue esta milicia la que perpetró los asesinatos en el campamento de desplazados de Savo, que albergaba a unas 4.000 personas el pasado mes de diciembre, según los datos de la agencia de migración de Naciones Unidas.
Los combatientes de Codeco han matado a cientos de civiles en Ituri en los últimos años y han obligado a miles a huir de sus hogares, según la ONU. Los ataques recientes también han tenido como objetivo los campamentos de personas desplazadas. “Primero escuché gritos cuando todavía estaba en la cama. Luego varios minutos de disparos. Escapé y vi antorchas y gente pidiendo ayuda y me di cuenta de que eran los milicianos de Codeco que habían invadido nuestro sitio”, ha explicado Lokana Bale Lussa, una residente del campamento, a Reuters.
Entre finales de noviembre e inicios de diciembre, en solo ocho días, el Barómetro de Seguridad de Kivu (KST) contabilizó 123 civiles muertos en la región, también en campamentos de desplazados. De hecho, Codeco secuestró el pasado lunes a cerca de 30 mineros en esta misma provincia, que está integrada predominantemente por miembros de la comunidad lendu.
Ndalo Bise ha agregado que los milicianos realizaron disparos y “decapitaron a gente con machetes” en su ataque al campamento de desplazados. “El presidente del organismo de vigilancia y su número dos están muertos”, ha relatado en declaraciones al portal de noticias Actualité.
Fuentes administrativas han confirmado el balance de víctimas, mientras que el jefe del distrito de Bahema Nadhere ha cifrado en 59 los fallecidos, si bien el conteo es provisional, dado que varios civiles resultaron heridos y otros fueron raptados, con lo que es posible que la cifra de muertos crezca a lo largo de las próximas horas.
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Las provincias de Ituri y Kivu Norte se encuentran bajo estado de sitio desde mayo, cuando el presidente congoleño, Félix Tshisekedi, dio orden de poner las mismas bajo mando militar para reforzar las operaciones contra los diversos grupos rebeldes que operan en la zona.
Varias personas, en una calle de Kinshasa en abril de 2017.Anadolu Agency (Getty Images)
Al menos 26 personas han muerto electrocutadas este miércoles después de que un cable eléctrico de alta tensión se rompiera y cayera sobre varias casas y un mercado en las afueras de Kinshasa, la capital de la República Democrática del Congo, según ha explicado la policía. “Un cable eléctrico de alto voltaje cayó sobre varias casas en el distrito de Matadi-Kibala y sobre el mercado, varias personas murieron en el lugar”, ha dicho el jefe de policía de la ciudad, Sylvano Kasongo.
“El cable se partió y al caer, la parte cargada de electricidad terminó en un canal lleno de agua de lluvia”, ha explicado a la agencia France Presse Charles Mbutamuntu, portavoz del gobierno local. “Hasta ahora tenemos 26 muertos electrocutados”, ha detallado.
La Policía congoleña ha indicado que la mayoría de las víctimas mortales, entre las que figuran 23 mujeres, son vendedoras que se encontraban en sus puestos en el mercado.
Los vídeos del mercado compartidos en Internet —aunque Reuters no ha podido verificarlos— muestran a personas llorando alrededor de varios cuerpos que yacían en charcos de agua donde habían caído, con productos frescos esparcidos a su alrededor.
The U.S. military is sending a guided missile destroyer to the United Arab Emirates and deploying fighter jets to help the UAE as it contends with missile attacks from Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The Pentagon said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed the moves in a phone call Tuesday with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
A Pentagon statement said the USS Cole will “partner with the UAE Navy before making a port call in Abu Dhabi.”
“The Secretary also informed the Crown Prince of his decision to deploy 5th Generation Fighter aircraft to assist the UAE against the current threat and as a clear signal that the United States stands with the UAE as a long-standing strategic partner,” the statement said.
A January 17 rebel attack killed three foreign workers at an Abu Dhabi oil facility.
One week later, UAE and U.S. forces at Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra airbase launched interceptor missiles to destroy two Houthi missiles.
A third attack came Monday, with UAE missiles intercepting a Houthi rocket during a visit from Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition, which since 2015 has battled the Houthi rebels in defense of Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
Some information for this report came from Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
Beijing began its hosting duties of the 2022 Winter Olympics with the start of the traditional Olympic torch relay Wednesday.
Vice Premier Han Zheng began the event when he passed the iconic torch to 80-year-old Luo Zhihuan, China’s first internationally competitive speed skater and first winter sports world champion, at Olympic Foreign Park.
More than 1,000 torchbearers will carry the Olympic torch through three competition zones, including downtown Beijing and the city of Zhangjiakou in neighboring Hebei province before returning to Beijing for Friday’s opening ceremonies.
The three-day relay is far more constrained than other past relays due to concerns about COVID-19, with only selected members of the public allowed to witness the relay. By comparison, Beijing sent the torch on a global tour ahead of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics, which drew demonstrators at several stops protesting China’s human rights abuses.
This year, numerous countries have refused to send an official delegation to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, including the United States, Australia, Britain and Canada.
The Olympics will be held under a so-called “bubble” that requires all Olympic athletes, officials, staff and journalists to remain isolated to keep the virus from potentially spreading into the general public.
Some information for this report came from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse.
El informe sobre las fiestas de Downing Street que publicó el pasado lunes la funcionaria Sue Gray ha resultado ser un campo de minas que revientan a cada paso que Boris Johnson intenta dar para escapar de este embrollo político. Aunque era un documento muy reducido en sus acusaciones, para respetar la petición expresa de la Policía Metropolitana de no hacer más que “mínimas referencias” a las fiestas que estaba investigando aún, las fechas y reuniones que señala han dado a los medios múltiples pistas comprometedoras para el primer ministro. De los 16 eventos de los que Gray recabó información, señalados con fecha y localización en su texto, doce están siendo analizados por Scotland Yard. Es decir, presentan indicios de infracción penal. Y de todos ellos, al menos en dos se ha detectado, a través de testigos, la presencia de Johnson. El diario The Guardian sitúa al primer ministro en una fiesta de despedida a un asesor político que trabaja en la actualidad en el Ministerio de Cultura y entonces lo hacía para el Gabinete del primer ministro. Fue el 14 de enero de 2021, cuando el Reino Unido apenas salía de otras Navidades canceladas y sometidas a duras medidas de restricción social, que seguían en vigor en esa fecha. Corría el prosecco (vinoespumoso italiano muy popular en Inglaterra) entre el personal que asistió a la despedida, y Johnson se dejó ver allí al menos cinco minutos para soltar un discurso de despedida.
Pero la fiesta que reviste más gravedad y potencial amenaza para el político conservador es la del 13 de noviembre de 2020. Aquel día se vio salir de Downing Street a su entonces asesor estrella e ideólogo del Brexit, Dominic Cummings. Era la imagen de la derrota, al cargar una caja de cartón con sus enseres personales. Pillado él mismo en su momento cuando se saltaba el confinamiento, para llevar a su mujer e hijo a una residencia campestre fuera de Londres, la verdadera razón de su caída en desgracia fue que perdió el enfrentamiento con la esposa de Johnson, Carrie Symonds. Esa noche se oyó bullicio en el número 11 de Downing Street. Había ganas de fiesta y sonaba la música de ABBA: The winner takes it all (El ganador se lo lleva todo).
El equipo de Johnson ha sido incapaz de negar las informaciones del The Daily Telegraph, que señalan que se vio a Johnson subir al apartamento cuando sonaba aún la música. “He hablado con gente que estaba allí esa noche y escuchó la fiesta mientras yo me iba. La oficina de prensa está justo debajo del apartamento privado [de los Johnson]”, ha señalado Cummings en un chat abierto este martes en su blog personal para responder a las preguntas de los lectores. “Esto podría ser un golpe mortal para él si miente a la policía, pero acabará diciendo que no se acuerda de nada, que es su respuesta habitual cuando huele el peligro”, ha acusado Cummings a su exjefe.
Más peticiones de dimisión
“Después de mucha reflexión, he llegado a la conclusión de que el primer ministro debería dimitir”, ha escrito este martes en su cuenta de Twitter el diputado conservador Peter Aldous. El mérito o la importancia de esta nueva petición -es el noveno parlamentario tory que lo hace- reside en el hecho de que Aldous era hasta ahora un perfecto desconocido que no tenía ninguna necesidad de hacerse notar con un ataque frontal al jefe. “Soy consciente de que otros colegas no estarán de acuerdo conmigo, pero creo que es lo mejor para los intereses del país, del Gobierno y del Partido Conservador”, afirmaba Aldous.
La respuesta vacilante, ambigua, agresiva, desafiante y esquiva que ofreció Johnson el lunes en la Cámara de los Comunes provocó a aumentar la irritación de muchos diputados conservadores. Empezando por su predecesora en el cargo, Theresa May, quien arremetió contra el político conservador por saltarse las estrictas normas que su Gobierno había impuesto al resto de ciudadanos. Más de cuarenta veces, durante su comparecencia, se escudó el primer ministro en una investigación policial que aún no ha concluido y debe ser respetada para no responder a las preguntas de los diputados. Se negó a confirmar si publicaría o no el informe completo sobre las fiestas, cuando estuviera listo, o incluso a informar a los ciudadanos en el caso de que la policía le acabara imponiendo una multa por asistir a las fiestas.
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Horas después, ante la indignación de políticos y medios, el equipo de comunicación de Johnson se veía obligado a rectificar y prometer mayor transparencia. Un 63% de los británicos sigue pensando que Johnson debería dimitir, una vez publicado el informe de Gray. Y entre los ciudadanos y los medios comienza a tener relevancia un factor frente al que, hasta ahora, Johnson era inmune: el ridículo internacional. El Daily Mail resaltaba este martes, a última hora de la noche, cómo la portavoz del presidente estadounidense Biden, Jen Psaki, había hecho mofa de la tarta sorpresa del cumpleaños del primer ministro; cómo la televisión rusa le acusaba de estar “bajo los tacones de su esposa Carrie”, y cómo los periodistas que le habían acompañado a su visita relámpago a Kiev de este martes habían acabado poniendo en duda la seriedad de su esfuerzo diplomático cuando incluso hubo de cancelar horas antes una llamada telefónica con Vladímir Putin programada con antelación, porque seguía aún en la Cámara de los Comunes dando explicaciones sobre las fiestas prohibidas.
The pandemic, its hoaxes and its doubts, led Dr. David Callejo to disclose through social networks. Months later the disclosure of him has passed into book format with ‘The first thing, life: The day to day of a doctor who learned to give everything’, where he recounts several of his experiences in the hospital
Dr. David Callejo showing his book ‘Life comes first. The day to day of a doctor who learned to give everything». Photo courtesy of Efe/Héctor Vila
The prose of the influencer doctor of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, a specialist in Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, invites you to empathize with the author in situations of medical work such as complications in the operating room, decision-making in seconds to save lives, the sanitary exhaustion and the happiness that the recoveries of the most serious patients give.
“I wanted to tell how many times we think that doctors can change the lives of patients and how a patient can change the lives of doctors or our way of thinking in some way,” says Callejo.
An example of his words was the moment when had to change his perspective by having to be a patient after being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for suffering a pneumothorax while still a medical student.
“It generally occurs in patients who are tall and thin. I would like to say that they are also attractive, but in this case science is not on my side », jokes the doctor in his book.
«You look helpless, you don’t understand anything, and you see how the toilets move very quickly and without explaining things too much because we do very mechanical things. I think that those bad moments as a patient helped me a lot later in my profession».
Remember David Callejo
Doctor, when is the pandemic going to end?
Via your social networks (@davidcallejo10) activates his facet as a disseminator and doctor influencer. David opened his Instagram profile thanks to the support of his students from the MIR preparation academywho encouraged him to respond through videos to the immense amount of uncertainties of the different users.
Among these uncertainties, the most demanded has been the search for a response to the pandemic. “When will it end?” “Is there an end date?” These are some of the questions that he has received the most through his Instagram profile.
«At the beginning we said that there were going to be 15 days of confinement, then another 15 were added, plus another 15 and another 15. Then we said that by Christmas 2020 we would be better. Then at Christmas we said that everyone was at home, but that next year everything was going to be normal. Something that in 2021 has not been with the arrival of omicron. We said that with the vaccine everything was going to improve, and it has, but I understand that people think that we were going to improve much more ».
says the doctor.
Dr. Callejo finds it an “impossible to answer” question, since putting an end date to the pandemic in search of complete normality is “frustrating people.”
“They ask me when this is going to end and I think the problem is that sometimes we have risked answering it and this has generated frustration. Setting an end date is only going to create more anxiety, and anxiety breeds depression, and depression breeds despair. This is a breeding ground for hoaxes»
Callejo account.
The writer acknowledges that the situation has changed, that we are on the right track, and that “it is far from being March 2020”. He is optimistic and believes “that there is less and less left”.
Social networks against hoaxes
He also awarded the Best Medical Disseminator of 2020 Due to his facet as a doctor influencer and one of the 100 best influencers of 2021 according to Forbes magazine, he has an important role in social networks informing and denying hoaxes related to health and the current panorama.
“The good thing about hoaxes on social networks is that they run like wildfire but their denial also runs very fast,” he acknowledges.
The number of hoaxes to deny in networks during the pandemic has been enormous. Many of them have followed the covid line, doubting their vaccines, masks and even toilets, the most viral in recent weeks being that related to the effectiveness of the tests.
«We have had hoaxes of all kinds, but the boom in recent weeks has been to do an antigen test with an orange or water and it comes out positive. If you pour water on a car and it doesn’t start, don’t be surprised because you’re using it wrong, well, it’s the same, it has some instructions to make it work.
Take the doctor as an example.
However, Callejo highlights the usefulness of networks for information as “an important role in helping many people”, as long as they are used correctly.
Andrea’s message
In one of the last parts of the work, the influencer doctor reveals a very present problem in society that has become another current pandemic: mental health.
“There is still a lot of stigma in Spain and it is something that needs to be talked about because without mental health there is no health,” he recalls.
Regarding the subject, Callejo recounts the emotional message he received through the networks where a girl named Andrea thanked him for saving her father’s life, who suffered from undiagnosed depression as a result of a neuronal pathology that causes a simple caress on the face to be a painful stimulus (trigeminal neuralgia). Expanding treatment to mental health allowed this family to have a second chance.
“Thank you for helping save him, thank you for treating us so warmly and humanely at the most traumatic and one of the most difficult times of our lives. Thank you for keeping someone so special alive and making it possible for me to continue enjoying it.”
Andrea says so in her letter.
“We need the support of the institutions«
Many other stories that the doctor shares reflect the current situation of health and its health workers. From the applause at eight in the afternoon to thank you for your great work it has gone on to “offensive messages and graffiti of ‘killer toilets’ or accused of ‘accomplices in a pandemic’».
Exterior view of the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid. EFE / Kiko Huesca
“You cannot consent to these attacks, which unfortunately are being abundant in health centers. We have been warning for a long time that we are overwhelmed and we cannot allow them to mistreat the hands that care for them », he expresses.
The anesthesiology specialist highlights the good health system in Spain and the exquisiteness of the health personnel, but also remember that the current situation for professionals is not the best.
«I always demand better working conditions. We have most of the personnel as interim, without a fixed position, who sign contracts for days or weeks, and this is a problem present in medicine and nursing. We need job stability and permanent staff. We need the support of the institutions»
Emphasizes the expert.
The moments that the doctor shares in the book are only part of his experiences in the hospital, which is why perhaps a second part can be read because “the hospital is an inexhaustible source of stories.” he points to him.
A high-end Totoya truck was detained by the Police of Ciénaga, Magdalena. The vehicle had decals and advertisements for Nancy Nunezcandidate for the House of Representatives for the Liberal Party.
The car was found in front of one of Núñez’s campaign headquarters in the last few hours. According to local media information, people alerted the PoliceWell, apparently, they were the owners and they would have reported him as missing in Barranquilla since last December 20.
Sneider Hernandezapparently the candidate’s husband, had the keys when he was required by the authorities, as reported by the local station ‘Transmecar’, and would have left the place before explaining himself.
When verifying the property documents, it was found that they had been adulterated and that the chassis number corresponded to a stolen vehicle.
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The candidate’s response
If they had pointed out me or any person in my campaign as responsible, they would be deprived of liberty at this time
This newspaper communicated repeatedly with Nancy Núñez, but did not answer the calls.
However, the candidate issued a series of statements through her social networks in which she assured that no one on her team is linked to the theft of the Toyota.
“The truck had political advertising for my campaign. I want to tell public opinion that this truck was not directly linked to my campaign, nor did it appear in the name of any member attached to it, “he wrote on his Facebook account.
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Núñez said that he would refrain from publishing more information on the subject “out of respect for judicial investigations.”
In another statement, he denounced that supposedly there are “dark forces that insist on affecting” his Bell.
“If they had pointed out me or any person in my campaign as responsible, they would be deprived of liberty at this hour. From now on, my legal team will advance all the complaints of the case”, She commented before the accusations that have been around, according to her, in digital media.
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