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08 June 2006
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08 June 2006 - Programme Number 103

SOMALIA: ISLAMISTS TAKE OVER CAPITAL, WHAT NEXT?
SUDAN: THE UN STILL SEEKS TO SEND TROOPS TO DARFUR
AND THE LINKS BETWEEN JOBS AND PEACE IN AFRICA

As a coalition of Islamist warlords takes full control of Mogadishu, we ask the UN's top official for Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, so what now? "We were always concerned about terrorism because terrorism is a threat against the security for everybody. I hope that they will not cross these red lines and that they will continue to dialogue and to establish a functioning government in all Somalia. It's the only way we can save this country."

The UN intensifies diplomatic efforts to secure the Sudanese government's cooperation in the deployment of UN peacekeepers in the violence-affected region of Darfur:"We also emphasize in the course of the discussions the importance of this country to Africa as a whole. Sudan is the biggest country in Africa. It's a strategic location and given the size and its potential we think that the fate and fortune of Sudan will affect the fate and fortune of the whole of the continent.," says Ghana's envoy at the UN, Nana Effah Appenteng, who's a member of the Security Council delegation that has been in Khartoum.

Plus, as Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf addressed the conference of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva we examine the key labour issues of interest to Africa: "Unemployment has risen to an unbelievable and unbearable 85 per cent. The level of unemployment and the idleness of our youth has a propensity for social disenchantment. For us, employment is synonymous with peace," she said.

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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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