World Food Programme’s Cindy McCain is under fire from staff at the Rome-based food agency for attending an awards ceremony saluting the people of Israel, while failing to show up for an event that mourned the death of U.N. workers killed in Gaza.
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Cindy McCain is getting some serious flak for her presence at an awards ceremony honoring the people of Israel, while failing to attend a commemoration for Palestinian United Nations workers killed during Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza, writes Senior Global Reporter Colum Lynch.
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Helen Murphy
Helen is an award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development in the Americas. Based in Colombia, she previously covered war, politics, financial markets, and general news for Reuters, where she headed the bureau, and for Bloomberg in Colombia and Argentina, where she witnessed the financial meltdown. She started her career in London as a reporter for Euromoney Publications before moving to Hong Kong to work for a daily newspaper.
