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5 May 2005
UN and Africa, a new weekly 15-minute radio programme, aims to cover topical and current-affairs-related stories about what the UN is doing for Africa, in Africa, and about Africa.          Press Release
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5 May 2005: Programme Number 46

TOGO: MORE THAN 20,000 REFUGEES
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: WHY SHOULD AFRICA CARE?

At least one hundred people are killed in Togo. Faure Gnassingbe - son of the late long-serving ruler - is installed president, as more than 20,000 Togolese flee into neighbouring Benin Republic and Ghana, seeking refuge. UNHCR Spokesperson Fati Kaba has seen some of the refugees: "Some of the refugees arriving are wounded, others are tired, we have some pregnant women, we have over hundred fifty that have arrived but felt they were not safe in Togo so they have to run away."

AFRICA AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Africa possesses no nuclear weapons. So why should African countries care when senior government and political figures from around the world gather at the United Nations for a review of the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty? Senior South African Foreign Ministry official, Abdul Minty, speaks to us about his country's example to the world.

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TOGO: VIOLENCE AND CONFUSION
COTE D'IVOIRE: WAY CLEAR
SUDAN: TOP REFUGEE AGENCY OFFICIAL ON HER RECENT VISIT

TOGO: Violence and confusion follow the presidential polls as the son of the late president Faure Gnassingbe is declared winner. We ask UN Director for Political Affairs, Sammy Kum-Buo, for the way out?: "Peace and the rule of law should return to Togo. And we remain firmly committed to working with ECOWAS and other regional leaders to bring that to pass in Togo."

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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? Transcript

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