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3 August 2006
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3 August 2006 - Programme Number 111

DR CONGO: Counting of Ballots Proving Crucial
SIERRA LEONE: Info Minister on Power and Water Shortages
SOMALIA: UN makes important trip to Mogadishu

People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo wait anxiously as the votes are counted. But what about allegations of massive fraud? Plus the politicians who are counting their chickens before they are hatched?: "What we have are only partial results, they are not representative of what happened election day. So it's far too little to derive any conclusions, or make any extrapolation as to the sign of the vote." UN Spokesman in the DR Congo, Kemal Saiki.

There have been severe disruptions in the water and electricity supplies in Sierra Leone. We asked Information and Broadcasting Minister Professor Septimus Kaikai why his government appears unable to solve these problems. "There is a statement, don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up. If your mind is made up about something, it doesn't matter how many times people tell you that this is what we are doing, you simply refuse to hear it."

For the first time in a long while, UN agencies undertake an important humanitarian assessment mission to Mogadishu and found the place without guns. What is happening? We asked senior UN official Eric LaRoche who led the mission.

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