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The First Woman to Address a Summit
of the African Union Reflects on the Relationship between
Africa and the United Nations
The
annual summit of African Union leaders ended on Tuesday
in the Ghanaian capital Accra. The theme of this year's
meeting was the creation of a continental integrated African
government. UN Deputy Secretary-General, Asha Rose-Migiro
became the first woman to address the meeting. UN Radio's
Gerry Adams talks to her about the challenges of a Pan-African
government.
An Urgent Appeal to Stop Severe
Malnutrition in Kenya's Refugee Camps
Somali
and Sudanese refugees living in camps in Kenya are in serious
danger of malnutrition. Three UN agencies - the World Food
Programme, the UN refugee agency and UNICEF- have
issued an urgent appeal for funds.
It's the Halfway Mark to Meet
the Millennium Development Goals. The deadline - 2015. Can
Africa do it?
"Reduce
by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar
a day" - that's the first of eight targets to reduce
poverty agreed by world leaders seven years ago. They're
known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. At the
halfway mark to the 2015 deadline, Kasirim Nwuke of the
UN Economic Commission for Africa gives an overview of progress
in Africa towards meeting these goals.
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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.
World Drug Report: Parts of Africa
Show Increase in Drug Abuse
The World Drug
Report 2007 says that for almost every kind of illicit drugs
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,
it's on the rise in Africa, says Thomas Pietschmann, one
of the authors of this year's World Drug Report.
Central African Republic Refugees
Flee To Chad
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 UNHCR
says a refugee crisis is developing in Chad as people flee
there from the Central African Republic.
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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
