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Fresh Fighting Breaks Out in
Eastern DR Congo
Fresh fighting breaks out again in the eastern part
of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, forcing scores
of peoples to flee their homes. Congolese troops in
North Kivu are battling with renegade soldiers who are
refusing to disarm and be integrated into the army.
The UN Mission in the country has the mandate to protect
civilians and support the army.
Eleven African Countries
Join Forces for Rural Education
Eleven African countries, meeting at the headquarters
of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, agree
to join forces to provide education for rural communities.
FAO's Lavinia Gasperini stresses the importance of educating
rural people in order to meet the millennium development
goals. "You cannot achieve universal
primary education if you don't reach rural people because
they are the majority and the ones who are still out
of school."
Zambia and UN agencies Vaccinate Two Million Children
Against Measles
Zambia's Ministry of Health, supported by UNICEF and
the World Health Organization, vaccinates two million
children against measles. UNICEF says the challenge
is to follow-up and vaccinate more children as soon
as they are born all of the time.
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Head of UN Peacekeeping Says
Sudan Creates Obstacle for Darfur Mission
The
head of UN Peacekeeping operations warns that the deployment
of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping
mission in Darfur is facing serious obstacles. Jean-Marie
Guehenno told the Security Council on Tuesday that there
are still serious shortfalls in providing personnel
and equipment for the operation. "We have
made some real progress at the level of principles but
it's not principles that are going to save people, it's
men on the ground, it's capacities."
Agriculture Agency Says Paying
Farmers Can Protect the Environment
The Food and Agriculture Organization says that farmers
should be given financial incentives to encourage them
to use practices that are environmentally friendly.
Poverty and Diseases Continue to Plague Africa
Disease and poverty are problems that continue to interact
and plague the African continent, as it struggles to
meet the millennium development goals of cutting by
half the number of people living in extreme poverty
by 2015.
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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
