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PAUL
VOLCKER ISSUES A REPORT ON OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME:
ARMED MILITIAS HAND IN THEIR WEAPONS IN THE DR
CONGO: TOGO PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS IN APRIL
 New
York: The Chairman of the Independent Inquiry
Committee on the oil-for-food programme, Paul
Volcker issued a report on the alleged role of
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in corruption
involving his son, Kojo Annan, during the implementation
of the programme.
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This
week the Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court, Moreno Ocampo came to United Nations headquarters
to receive a sealed list of 51 names of people suspected
of crimes against humanity, committed in the western
Darfur region of Sudan. "As the Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court my duty in this
common task is to investigate the crimes and to respect
the interests of the victims." 
In
Rwanda and at the United Nations, April 7 is a reminder
of genocide that happened eleven years ago. The representative
of Rwanda to the United Nations explains how one group
of the people of Rwanda, who had lived together for
many years, sharing the same culture, was manipulated
into turning against their compatriots and slaughtered
them in hundreds of thousands in 1994.
A
killer disease known as Marburg has killed 150 people
in Angola. Dick Thomson, a spokesman for the
World Health Organization in Geneva. There is
no treatment for the disease. There is no vaccine. Generally
there is a case fatality rate anywhere from 25 to over
90 per cent."
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? 
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