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SPECIAL INTERVIEW:
WITH UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL, IBRAHIM GAMBARI,
THE NEWLY-APPOINTED HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
POLITICAL AFFAIRS
 Ibrahim
Agboola Gambari - former Foreign Minister of Nigeria
- has just been appointed the new head of the
UN's strategically-important Department of Political
Affairs. But who is Ibrahim Gambari? What makes
him tick? How does feel about Africa's reputation
as the problem continent of the world? We hear
from the man, himself.
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The
Zimbabwean government demolishes the houses and properties
of thousands of city dwellers. It says they were illegally-constructed.
There is some international condemnation, and now UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan dispatches one of his senior
UN officials, Anna Tibaijuka, to Zimbabwe to assess
the situation.
Youth
unemployment: more serious in Africa than in any other
region of the world. We have a report on what is being
done to get more young Africans into work.
"This
is a very important first time. To date since we don't
have either drugs or vaccines to help people who are
in this haemorrhagic fever situation." WHO's DICK
THOMPSON 
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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