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African Ambassadors' Wives Help Sisters Back Home
In
the mid-1980s, a group of African ambassadors wives
in New York wanted to do something about the famine
in Ethiopia. Pooling their talents, including kitchen
skills, they raised $50,000 for UN relief efforts and
they haven't stopped. The UN African Mothers Association
(UNAMA) continues to raise thousands of dollars through
luncheons and other events to benefit women and children
in Africa.
Health Project Helps Remote
village in Burundi
A
health centre in a remote village of Burundi is giving
a gift of life to people who are in desperate need of
medical service in the country. Deo Niyizonkiza, a Burundian
medical student involved in the project, says that despite
the problems it is encountering, such as lack of electricity,
the facility is already seeing an average of sixty patients
a day.
Children Take Over Airwaves
of UNMIL Radio in Liberia
The
end of December is an exciting time for children expecting
gifts. But the beginning of the month was equally exciting
for Liberian children who took over the airwaves of
UNMIL Radion for this year's International Children's
Day of Broadcasting.
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UN Envoy Says Situation is Getting Worse in Somalia
The
Security Council started the week by discussing Somalia
which continues to struggle to consolidate a fragile
transitional government. The Secretary-General's Special
Representative for the country, Ahmed Ould-abdallah
says the United Nations needs to launch diplomatic action
to help stabilize the country:
"The situation is dangerous and becoming
more so each day. Somalia youth has only one work possibility,
which is to participate in a conflict."
Kenyan Child Delegate Says
Children Want Quality Education
A young Kenyan delegate to the UN General Assembly
says that poverty, education and health are important
issues for children around the world. Millicent Orondo,
who was chosen by her peers to deliver a closing statement
to the General Assebly and talk to the press later,
spoke to UN Radio about the message she brought to the
United Nations.
African Migrants in Search
of a Better Life Continue to Suffer
As
a reminder of the age-old human activity of moving from
one country to another in search of a better life, December
18 was celebrated as International Migrants Day. Many
Africans move from North Africa to Europe and Yemen
in search of work. Some of these would be migrants die
during the dangerous voyage across the Gulf of Aden
to Yemen.
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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
