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26 May 2005: Programme Number 49

SUDAN DONORS IN ADDIS ABABA,
SIERRA LEONE COURT WANTS CHARLES TAYLOR

The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, leads a new campaign to get needed funds and logistics for African Union troops in Darfur, Sudan so they could provide more security and stability for Internally Displaced Persons. The UN's Head of peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno says donor nations already have what the AU needs: "In many cases these equipments are available in warehouses of western armies, which have the resource, so they know how many of those equipment they could make available for the African Union. And I think that is going to be more efficient than writing checks and then having to go through the whole procurement process"

The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone appeals through the Security Council for the exiled former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, to be handed over to be tried:
"We have solid evidence that Charles Taylor has already once tried to kill President Conte of Guinea on the 19th of January. And we do know for a fact that he is going to try to do it again. We also have clear and convincing evidence that he is also working directly with Al Qaeda, both with money as well as other things. Charles Taylor is not only a war criminal, but he is a meddler as well as a terrorist."

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