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SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET IN NAIROBI, OVER SUDAN
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NEPAD CRITICISED: WHAT HAS IT ACHIEVED?
On November 18th and 19th, the UN Security Council
will be meeting - not in New York but - in Nairobi,
Kenya, in support of the Sudan peace process.
Is it just symbolism? And why is the United States
envoy to the UN, John Danforth, optimistic? "This
is an opportunity for the Council to paint a picture
of the future of Sudan."
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The
situation in Sudan’s Darfur Region moves from bad
to worse, and the UN’s top envoy on the ground,
Jan Pronk, says it’s not just the government that’s
to blame: “The humanitarian assistance to
is increasingly being hampered not by the government,
but by the rebels because they are closing roads, they
are stopping food transport.”
Plus,
Violence between Muslims and Christians in the Liberian
capital test the peace process but the former rebels
announce they are disbanding. We ask the head of the
UN’s Liberia Mission Jacques Klein, ‘what
next?’:“Now, what we going to do is
cordon off parts of the city, when we get rumours we’ll
do raids and those emergency measures are working.”
Tenth anniversary of the Rwandan
genocide: Why did the genocide happen?
Why was the UN unable to prevent the killings
or stop the massacres? What lessons have been
learned?