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16 July 2004
UN and Africa, a new weekly 15-minute radio programme, aims to cover topical, newsy, and current-affairs-related stories about what the UN is doing for Africa, in Africa, and about Africa.          Press Release
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UN CHIEF VISITS SUDANESE REFUGEE CAMP IN CHAD

In this special programme, we travel with UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to the Iridimi Refugee Camp - for Sudanese refugees from Darfur - in Chad . We examine the plight of victims of the world's worst humanitarian crisis and we hear from some of them.

We question Sudanese government ministers about their government's alleged support for the much-feared Arab Janjaweed militiamen who have been attacking the mainly black African populations.
HUMANITARIAN MINISTER IBRAHIM MAHMUD HAMED:
"No it is not right. I want to say something, this is a war. There is violence everywhere, even in Iraq we have a very serious crisis."

Plus, what the UN Secretary-General heard himself from the victims:
MR ANNAN:
"The stories the refugees are telling and the internally displaced people are telling are the same. They were attacked, they feared aggression, there were serious violations of human rights, gross and systematic ones and they had to flee for their lives."

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PILOT EDITION

The pilot edition
of UN and Africa is a special on the Rwandan genocide.
We ask: Why did the genocide happen? Why was the UN unable to prevent the killings or stop the massacres? What lessons have been learned?

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Reflections of the Genocide |
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Video of Memorial Conference
[3hrs 41mins]

 
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