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In Its First Verdicts, UN-Backed
Special Court For Sierra Leone Finds 3 Former Rebel Leaders
Guilty of War Crimes
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, issuing its
first verdicts, finds three former rebel leaders guilty
of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The three are
scheduled to be sentenced, pending an appeal, on 16 July.
Human Rights Expert Calls for
Protection of Africa's "Refugees from Hunger"
Over 800 million
people suffer from hunger, 
and
the number is increasing yearly. The UN Special Rapporteur
on the Right to Food has called on the UN Human Rights Council
to treat those who flee hunger to be treated as refugees.
"The number of the gravely, permanently undernourished
people in Africa went up from 81 million people in '72 to
204 million people in 2002."
UN Mourns Death of Radio Okapi Journalist in the DRC
Thirty-one
year old Serge Maheshe, a journalist
with Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
was shot to death on 13 June. Colleagues are mourning the
loss of this gifted colleague. Another of his colleagues
tells what is known so far about his murder."We
don't know that he received death threats, we do know that
he did receive some threats".
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The Sudanese Government has announced
its acceptance of the proposal for a 
hybrid
United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation
The Sudanese Government has announced
its acceptance of the proposal for a hybrid UN-African Union
peacekeeping operation to the violence-wracked Darfur region:
"I explained to the Council that this was in
our view a significant step forward."
A New Meningitis Vaccine Proven Effective in West African
Children
A new meningitis
vaccine has proven effective in West African children. An
outbreak of meningitis was first recorded in late 2006.
The Unhealthy Effects of Extracting
Oil from the Ground
"Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environmental
Rights Action, based in Nigeria, is a human rights advocate
concerned with the unhealthy effects of extracting oil from
the ground. He spoke to UN Radio's Dianne Penn on the occasion
of World Environment Day.
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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
