Millions face a special risk in Africa, the Middle East and eastern Europe.
The risk is similar in Libya, where hostilities are surging despite calls from the United Nations, the United States and a number of European and Arab countries for combatants to engage in a “humanitarian pause.”on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has triggered the worst violence the North African oil producer has seen since 2011, killing more than 350 civilians.
Fighters on both sides appear to be taking advantage of the international community’s gaze on the pandemic, said Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya analyst at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague.“Right now, because the world is indeed being consumed with the whole covid-19 pandemic,” he said, “the behaviors we see in Libya are even more unhinged and more cynical.
The Ukrainian president has vowed to end the war, and encouraging developments have surfaced, including prisoner exchanges. But progress drags on the thorniest issues at the heart of the conflict.The pandemic has encouraged some combatants to hold fire — if only for a few weeks. “Let’s hope they do it,” said Miguel Ceballos, the Colombian High Commissioner of Peace. “If they do it, they are helping to save lives.”
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