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Security Council Decides to Deploy
Peacekeepers in Darfur
The Security Council decides to authorize the deployment
of over 20,000 troops and police to protect displaced people
in Darfur. The head of peacekeeping operations, Jean Marie
Guehenno says there is no precedent of the UN coming together
with a regional organization like the African Union to launch
one of the largest operations in the history of the United
Nations.
Human Rights Committee Reports
Human Rights Abuses in Darfur
In Geneva, the Human Rights Committee completes the review
of the human rights records of Sudan and Zambia. On Sudan,
the Committee says although the country has some positive
developments, human rights abuses in the conflict-torn region
of Darfur are alarming. Patrick Maigua reports from Geneva.
Leaders of Cote d'Ivoire Participate in Symbolic Burning
of Weapons
President
Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Cote
d'Ivoire participate in a ceremony to burn weapons in Bouke.
The spokesman for the UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire, Hammadoun
Toure, says the event was a symbolic demonstration that
the Ivorians are determined to complete the peace process.
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Renewed Fighting in Mogadishu
Forces Somalis to Flee Again
Fighting 
in Somalia is putting pressure on UN agencies providing
relief assistance to internally displaced people and refugees.
The UN refugee agency says it needs $48 million to assist
the refugees.
Ongoing crisis in Darfur Creates
Problems for Sudan's Neighbours
The
crisis in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan continues
to pose serious security problems for neighbouring Chad
and the Central African Republic.
Attacks 
on WFP Food Convoys Increase in Darfur
The World Food Programme is alarmed by a dramatic increase
in the attacks on humanitarian workers and its food convoys
in Darfur. WFP spokesperson in Sudan, Emilia Casella, says
the attacks range from shots being fired at vehicles to
drivers being attacked, abused or robbed.
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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
