At
UN,
ECOWAS to
Raise Mali on
June 15, Sudan
Spin, Jonglei
Cover Up?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 12 --
After a long
post-coup
lull, this
week the UN
Security
Council will
hear about
Mali on June
13 from the
African
Union Peace
and Security
Council, then
on Friday June
15 from
ECOWAS,
a well placed
UN Security
Council source
exclusively
told Inner
City Press on
June 12.
From
Burkina Faso,
Djibril
Bassole is
slated to
come,
diplomats told
Inner City
Press.
Meanwhile as
the Security
Council
met Tuesday
afternoon
about Iran,
Sudanese
diplomats went
in and out
of the
Council,
telling Inner
City Press
they were
"briefing"
Council
members about,
among other
things, the
break down in
the
talks with
South Sudan in
Addis Ababa.
Inner
City Press
asked outgoing
Children and
Armed Conflict
expert Radhika
Coomaraswamy
Tuesday at
noon why the
hundreds of
youths with
guns who
clashed early
in this year
in South
Sudan's
Jonglei State,
mostly
around Pibor,
were not
listed as
child soldier
recruiters.
Coomaraswamy
said
that the UN
doesn't view
what happened
as an armed
conflict --
which
seems strange,
given that it
was defined
ethnic groups,
with guns,
marching and
killing each
other.
UNMISS
boss Hilde
Johnson told
Inner City
Press long ago
that she was
about to
release
the UN's
report on
Pibor and how
many people
died there.
But nothing
has been
released.
Might the PSC
bring it up?
Watch this
site.
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