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FAO Says Bird Flu Campaigns in Asia must Continue.
WFP Resumes Food Supplies To North Korea But Says More Needed
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UN criminal tribunal for Rwanda today sentenced Samuel Imanishiwe,
former military commander to 27 years in prison for his part in
the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The court however acquitted two other
former Rwandan officials who had been accused of genocide, crimes
against humanity and violations of the Geneva Conventions. The court
found that Mr. Imanishiwe, as the commander of Karambo military
camp issued orders to soldiers to arrest, mistreat and executive
civilians. Roland Amoussouga is the spokesman for the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Arusha, Tanzania. "As a result he was also found criminally responsible for extermination and for failing to prevent or to punish his subordinate soldiers participating in the massacre at the Gashirabowba football field on 12 April 1994." Imanishimwe was arrested in Kenya in 1997 and transferred to the tribunal's detention facility in Arusha on the same day. His conviction brings to 21 the number of trials which have been completed since the tribunal was established in 1994.
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The
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that outbreaks
of the bird flu are still occurring in some Asian countries, making
it necessary to continue efforts to control the virus. it says surveillance
and control strategies should be continued , including the elimination
of all birds in infected production units, and bio security measures
should also be strengthened. According to the food organization,
the situation in some countries is still unclear and further epidemiological
investigations are required to get the virus under control. Meanwhile,
FAO has sent several disease experts to seven of the most-affected
countries-Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Pakistan, Thailand and
Vietnam-to assess the local situation and assist these countries
in fighting the disease. FAO's warning comes on the eve of a three-day
meeting of 23 Asia-Pacific countries , in Bangkok, to discuss control
strategies and rehabilitation measures. 
The
world food programme says it has taken extraordinary measures to
partially resume food supplies to north Korea's hungriest people.
But it also warns that 1.5 million vulnerable people will still
go hungry over the next six weeks and that without additional donations
soon, millions of malnourished people will be deprived of food in
the second half of the year. The WFP's representative in the country
says that given the long lead time between food-aid donations and
deliveries, which usually take three to four months, pledges are
needed now, in order to feed the hungriest of the hungry in the
latter part of the year as well as to repay loans. The official
noted that this 'stop-go' means of providing food aid is very damaging.
With little or no WFP assistance available, some nurseries and kindergartens
have been forced to close down , while others have cut from three
to two the number of meals they provide to the children.
A
senior United Nations official is in Iraq to assess reconstruction
and humanitarian issues. Special representative for Iraq Ross Mountain
will also meet with representatives of the Coalition Provisional
Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council. United Nations Spokesman
Fred Eckhard says Mr. Mountain will meet local UN staff and senior
Iraqi leaders.