by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, June 27 – How corrupt has the UN become under Antonio Guterres? The example below is from the MONUSCO "peacekeeping" mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, largely relocated to Entebbe, sent to Inner City Press which Guterres and his Melissa Fleming ban from entering the UN to ask, while Spox Stephane Dujarric refuses written questions [on June 19, 2025 we applied]
On June 27, with no response from the UN, its spokesman / censor Stephane Dujarric past 11 pm issued a statement "I welcome the signing of a peace agreement on 27 June in Washington, D.C., by the governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, facilitated by the United States." Under Guterres, the UN accomplishes nothing, bans Press.
Dear SG Greetings from Entebbe. Allow me to bring some issues in Monusco to your attention for your digestion and action. I am writing from Entebbe where I have been reassigned from Goma.
Since I came to Entebbe 3 months ago I have been idle. I don't know why I am here. The people I was recruited to serve are in Goma not Entebbe. I understand my supervisor will be joining me soon. Two lost souls! During the three months I have only read novels and got paid for it.
I have got my setting in grant and installed my family of five. Since schools and medical facilities are lacking in Entebbe, after the allowances hit the account, my family is back home. I have invested the God-sent money in bonds. Currently I am reading a novel " Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. The old man is gifted. He begins the novel by quoting from a poem " The Second Coming" by W B Yeats which goes as follows " Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall Apart; the centre cannot hold: Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. " You can read more to understand what Yeats was writing about.
Things are falling apart in MONUSCO under the stewardship of your SRSG [and SG].
One is reminded of a quip by one of the Presidents in the Great Lakes region who calls MONUSCO tourists. True to that, after seeing the suffering of the people in Kivus our next tourist destination is Entebbe. Shame!
At this rate, by the end of June 2025, the D SRSG for protection will be high and dry with no support. Does this warrant her stay in Goma? Probably not. Isn't this what someone has all along wished that she goes to Kinshasa? To protect who? The sheges or street children? Why not destuff Kinshasa? What are all the numbers doing there? Why are we running away from Goma when the protagonists in the war are near to signing a peace accord? Don't we have a role to play? Who is setting up Monusco for failure? The Administration has decreed that by 1 July all heads of MSD sections in Goma should be headed to Entebbe. Only one such head of Section who played a heroic role of ceding his office to the Romanian girl that had come on a frolic to Goma and was caught up in the war as reported in the inner city press will be staying."
And the scoops just keep on coming. Keep it coming - the Press must be restored.
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