UN Adviser on Sport Goes to Liberia
to Launch Sport for Peace Programme
The
UN Secretary-General's Special
Adviser on Sport for Development,
Adolf Ogi,
goes
to Liberia
this week to launch a five-week
nationwide Sport for Peace Programme. He says sport is an
essential tool to promote peace and national reconciliation.
"In sport you learn to win without
thinking you are the best. In sport you learn to lose without
thinking that's the end. In sport you learn to respect the
opponent, you learn to accept rules."
Situation Remains Volatile and
Unpredictable in Eastern Chad
The
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has proposed that a force
be established to protect thousands of displaced people
in the volatile region of eastern Chad. Aid agencies say
it is increasingly diffcult to work in that region. Actress
Mia Farrow, who is UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, has just
returned from Chad and the Central African Republic.
"Eastern Chad is at this moment that I was there ominously
quiet. The only sounds of gunshots were from the army presence
there. People have either gone to or been placed in makeshift
camps. But the water is insufficient. The food is insufficient."
Former Sierra Leonean Child Soldier
Recalls His War Experiences
In a previous edition of UN and Africa Ishmael Beah talked
about how he became a child soldier after his family was
killed by rebel fighters of the Revolutionary United Front.
In this second part of his interview with UN Radio, Ishmael,
who eventually escaped the ordeal of being a child soldier,
says children used different types of drugs and watched
war films to become killers without feelings."The
drugs ranged from your common marijuana to cocaine, to different
tablets that I don't know what their names are, to brown
brown, which is cocaine mixed with gun powder."
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Ban Ki-moon Awaits
Response from Sudanese President on Darfur
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says
he is still waiting for a reply from 
Sudanese
President Omar Al-Bashir to his letter in which he is proposing
the deployment of a hybrid UN/AU peacekeeping force to Darjur.
"The continuing deteriorating situation in Darfur,
particularly the human rights violations and abuses and
killings of civilians, is just unacceptable. The international
community must take immediate measures on this matter."
The Secretary-General says the crisis in Darfur
is a top priority issue on his agenda.
Security Council Authorizes African
Union Mission to Stabilize Somalia
The Security Council has authorized the African Union to
establish a mission to help stabilize the situation in Somalia.
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Former Sierra Leonean Child Soldier
Recalls His War Experiences
Ishmael Beah was forced to become a child soldier at the
age of thirteen during the civil war in Sierra Leone in
the 1990's. More...
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PILOT EDITION Real Audio
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
