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COTE
D’IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT
AIRCRAFT ATTACK REBELS,
LIBERIA: RIOTS IN MONROVIA,
AND DARFUR:
BAD TO WORSE
West Africa is thrown into fresh crisis after
the government of Cote D’Ivoire launched
a fresh offensive against the rebels in the north.
 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 is increasingly
being hampered not by the government, but by the
rebels because they are closing roads, they are
stopping food transport.”
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Cote
D'Ivoire remains in deep crisis with anti-French feeling
running high in Abidjan. French troops destroy the entire
fleet of the Ivorian air-force after nine French soldiers
were killed. The French Envoy to the UN, Jean-Marc de
La Sabliere, defends his country's action:
But
the Ivorian envoy to the UN, Philippe Djangone-Bi, disagrees
and says a French-sponsored Security Council resolution
threatening sanctions is uncalled-for:
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?