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The Citizen
On March 2 and April 8 the United Nations General Assembly passed two resolutions against Russia. In the first resolution, the UN condemned Russia for invading Ukraine and in the second, it suspended Moscow from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). In the two resolutions, 140 nations voted in favour, and 40 either abstained or voted against the resolutions. Based on the analysis by the author of Why Africa is Poor, Greg Mills, the 140 nations that voted with Ukraine represent over 70 percent of the global economy, despite comprising only 40 percent of the world’s population, while …