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Sudan's Internally Displaced Begin
Returning Home
Since the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement
in 2005, more than 100-
thousand
people have returned to south Sudan. International Organization
for Migration is helping Sudan's internally displaced persons
to return home. Jean-Philippe Chauzy is the IOM Spokesperson:
"This year, so far, IOM and its partners for the UN
have assisted about forty two thousand internally displaced
people."
World Drug Report: Parts of Africa
Show Increase in Drug Abuse
The World Drug
Report 2007 says that for almost every kind of illicit drug
- cocaine, heroine, cannabis and amphetamine-type stimulants
- ATS - there are signs of overall stability, whether we
speak of cultivation, production or use. In Africa, however,
that is not the case. While drug abuse worldwide is on the
decline, in Africa, it's on the rise, says Thomas Pietschmann,
one of the authors of this year's World Drug Report.
"For a long time, people had no idea that you could
get heroine by Africa or you could get cocaine by Africa."
Central African Republic Refugees
Flee To Chad
A
fter
walking for more than a week in the bush, refugees from
the Central African Republic are making their way to Chad
with stories of being personally assaulted and their children
being kidnapped. Vladimir Mijovic of the UN refugee agency
UNHCR says a refugee crisis is developing in Chad as people
flee there from the Central African Republic. "Since
January, to date, we have close to 3,000 arrivals coming
from the northern part of the Central African Republic."
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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.
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.
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.
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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
