UN
Silence on Congo Election and Uranium, Until It's To Iran or After a Ceasefire,
and Council Rift on Kony
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED
NATIONS, August 8 -- The Congolese uranium mentioned a month ago in a UN report
is now suddenly more prominent, due to
reports it was destined for Iran.
Tuesday,
Inner City Press asked Kofi Annan's
spokesman about the report, the
uranium shipment, and the strange silence of the UN's Congo mission, MONUC. The
spokesman had also been silent on reports of irregularities in ballot counting
in the Congo. It's said the UN has spend over $450 million on the election, yet
reporters observe ballots held down with pieces of crumbling walls, while
counting stations burn.
Congo
ballots, all stacked up
UN
spokesman Stephane Dujarric, returning from vacation into a blizzard of
questions about the Middle East, fielded both Congo questions in a general way.
On vote counting he urged patience and calm, calling the election a "humongous
challenge." On the export of the Congo's natural resources he was more
expansive, calling it a "great problem" but insisting that the UN's MONUC
"cannot and does not monitor the export of resources from the DRC." Video
here,
from Minute 22 to 24:33.
The UN
report, S/2006/525 dated July 18, states of a uranium "shipment from October
2005, the Tanzanian Government left no doubt that the uranium was transported
from Lubumbashi by road through Zambia to the United Republic of Tanzania."
Less than a month later in Kinshasa, MONUC spokesman Jean-Tobias Okala
said
he could not confirm the uranium shipment. Developing.
In
similar silence on Somalia, the UN spokesman has committed to provide details on
the UN's humanitarian assessment mission to Mogadishu, which ended last Tuesday
with nothing being said of it. Why not go to Baidoa, to see if Ethiopian troops
are there or not? Mr. Dujarric said he would ask, but that "I doubt I will have
any more to say that what has been said here from this podium" -- that is, that
the UN is "not in the position to confirm" the invasion of one country by
another, at least not when the invasion is ostensibly in support of the party
the UN has sided with. Inner City Press also asked about reports of an "
Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, with the Kazakh flag painted on its tail, landed in the
capital, Mogadishu, on July 26 and 28," presumably with arms for the Supreme
Council of Islamic Courts. Another largely ignored UN report, S/2006/ 229 dated
May 4, named six nations violating the Somalia arms embargo -- Ethiopia,
Eritrea, Djibouti, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Italy, and other "clandestine"
violator, widely assumed to by the United States. And now the Khazaks join the
list? Video
here,
from Minute 34:14 to 35:15.We'll see.
One line
of questioning begun Monday by Inner City Press was on Tuesday moved forward, if
only slightly. Responding further to Inner City Press' question about the use of
depleted uranium (DU) in weapons in Lebanon, the spokesman said while the UN's
Department of Disarmament Affairs has "no clear position" on the use of DU
weapons, there is a "need to investigate" the use of DU in "post-conflict
situations like Kosovo and Bosnia." Video
here,
from Minutes 32:32 to 33:08. So apparently the UN would wait at least until
after a ceasefire, or cessation of hostilities, in the current draft resolution
puts it, before using Geiger counters.
On yet
another too-ignored problem on the Continent, Inner City Press on Tuesday
conducted walking interviews with both the Ghanaian president of the Security
Council, Nana Effah-Apenteng, and with UK Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, on
reports
that the Council is preparing a Chapter VII resolution to disarm the Lord's
Resistance Army. Ghana's Ambassador said, "We have to wait for the outcome of
the Juba talks." Somewhat differently, Amb. Jones Parry confirmed that the UK is
drafting and pushing a Chapter VII resolution. In the Juba talks, Joseph Kony
and Vincent Otti and three others indicted for war crimes by the International
Criminal Court are being offered amnesty by Uganda's Museveni government. The
Ghanaian Ambassador's position seems to not take this into account. The UK
position, while always pro-Museveni, is contradicted by the UK's reported
refusal to encourage Uganda to stop ignoring the DR Congo sanctions.
Developing...
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At
the UN Some Middle Eastern Answers, Updates on Congo and Nepal While Silence on
Somalia
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED NATIONS,
August 7 -- With the Franco-American draft resolution on Lebanon stalled in the
Security Council, questions have arisen about continued violence and abductions
in Gaza. UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi answered Inner City Press' questions by
stating that from August 1 through August 6, 17 Palestinians including five
children have been killed. While he had no prepared statement on what Inner City
Press termed the arrest of Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian
parliament, Mr. Fawzi said, "It's the sort of thing that does not help the
eventual two state solution, abductions and targeted extra-judicial killings,
and will only lead to a further escalation of current tensions between the
Israelis and the Palestinians." Video
here,
Minutes 25 through 27.
Inner
City Press asked how the UN system would monitor for or be aware of any use of
depleted uranium in the conflict zone. Mr. Fawzi asked for
copies of the reports
of the transmission of depleted uranium-tipped GB 28 "bunker busters" to Israel,
and said he would have to "consult before reacting." Video
here,
from Minute 27 onward. The
articles
have been
provided
and response will be reported in this space.
Smoke
over Beirut c UNHCR
In other increasingly ignored global news, the Security Council met
for eight minutes Monday about Cote D'Ivoire, where already on-overtime
president
Gbagbo has announced his intention to
remain in power whether the
delayed elections are held on October 31 or not. At the noon briefing, Inner
City Press asked why there had been no update on the elections in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, on which the UN states that it has spent $450 million. Inner
City Press asked for a response to the South African ambassador's
characterization of the
atmosphere in Kinshasa as "poisoned," and
on reports of the burning of ballots. The response, which was in writing at the
podium but only delivered once the question was asked, as that the UN's MONUC
"remains satisfied" and states that the burned ballots were, due to a
"pre-existing technical arrangement," able to be "recovered electronically."
Video
here,
from Minutes 6:10 to 7:50.
In other
happy UN news that goes without update unless requested, Inner City Press asked
about reports of the
breakdown of negotiations in Nepal,
mere days after Kofi Annan's envoy
Staffan de Mistura expressed "optimism."
The response was that Mr. de Mistura is meeting with Kofi Annan on Monday
afternoon. The meeting was and is not on the Secretary-General's formal
schedule, and while it has now been requested that Mr. de Mistura take questions
from reporters, it is not clear when that will happen.
On
Somalia, the spokesman quoted SRSG Francois Lonseny Fall as welcoming Ethiopia's
mediation within the Transitional Federal Government. Inner City Press asked if
Mr. Fall UN has asked the Ethiopian officials with whom he speaks if Ethiopia
has troops in Somalia. The response was that the UN is not in a position to
confirm the presence of Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia. No response was given to
the ongoing question of whether Mr. Fall or anyone else in the UN has even posed
the question to Ethiopia. The one-line response to Inner City Press' question
about the previously-reported UN assessment mission to Mogadishu is that "the
most recent UN humanitarian assessment mission to Somalia was completed last
week Tuesday." But what is the read-out? What was found, and what will be done?
Developing.
On
Lebanon, Franco-American Resolution Reviewed at UN in Weekend Security Council
Meeting
UNITED
NATIONS, August 5 -- In a rare Saturday afternoon session, the UN Security
Council is meeting on a draft resolution on the conflict in Lebanon. The draft
resolution was circulated at the UN at 1 pm Saturday. Now updates, in reverse
chronological order:
Update of 7:30 pm --
After interviewing a variety of sources in the half-light outside the Security
Council, it appears clear that the resolution will not pass, or even be voted
on, on Sunday. It's passage is predicted Monday, without Condi Rice, or Tuesday,
if a ministerial meeting can be organized. The opposition of Lebanon and Qatar
makes such a meeting less likely. And who will do what, in the hours to come, to
change the facts on the ground? Developing...
Update of 5:45 pm --
There will be no vote today. An expert briefing began at 5 pm; there will be
another one at 10 am on Sunday. Russian Ambassador Churkin emerged and spoke of
Lebanon's objections, as did the Ambassador of Qatar. On the sidelines, Inner
City Press asked Palestine's permanent observer what would or could be done for
a cessation of hostilities in Gaza. "I wish," he said. And then another
cameraman, rushing by for an interview of the hall, hit him in the eye with his
camera.
Secretary
General Kofi Annan swept in at 4:35 pm, with no words for the press.
Photographers joked of his Miami Vice look, fresh in from Santo Domingo. When he
swept out, he urged the questioning press to "listen to the Ambassador," in this
case from Qatar. The head of UN peacekeeping stood by the elevator whispering to
a TV network's operative. Then he too was done, the back-down to Congolese
warlord and peacekeeper-kidnapper Peter Karim not addressed, the Lebanese crisis
left unresolved yet again, and Gaza not even touched, except by bombs...
Previously, at 4:22
p.m. -- in the media-frenzied space outside the Council chamber, the grumbling
about the text began at 3 pm. A U.S. embassy staffer directed the press to
Russia as the source of forthcoming delay. Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin
came out, but spoke only to "the Russian press," which consisted of three
reporters. Amb. Churkin's staffer tried to prohibit the non-Russian media from
recording her boss' sotto voce spinnings.
The ambassador
from Qatar asked for a thirty minute delay and got it. The Lebanese envoy was
interpreted as against the resolution, though he declined to stop and speak with
reporters. The Syrian ambassador strode in, also without stopping. Palestine's
permanant observer, ever polite, stopped and took Inner City Press' question;
his answer, however, was "Ask Russia," which as described above has yet to be
possible.
French
Ambassador de La Sabliere has offered expert briefings to the Council, later
Saturday or Sunday. Russia, it's said, has said no. A wise colleague advises
that Russia was in the loop, but hearing of Lebanese opposition, decided to join
in. Kofi Annan waits in the wings, but there's much reading of the tea leaves as
things slide toward five o'clock. Developing.
In
further terms of timing, it appears that not only the television images of dead
civilians, broadcast worldwide, but also communications such as that to George
Bush by the Egyptian president, of Monday as the absolute deadline before
regionalization of the conflict, played a role in the U.S. - French agreement
announced to reporters Saturday mid-morning. Inner City Press will be reporting
in real time from the Security Council for the rest of Saturday; watch this
space.
Amb.
de La Sabliere (w. SRSG "Congo-king" Swing, see below)
UN
Knew of Child Soldier Use by Two Warlords Whose Entry into Congo Army the UN
Facilitated
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED NATIONS,
August 4 -- As in the Congo vote counting continues, now with
reports of the burning of ballots both
used and unused, further information has emerged about the UN system's knowledge
of the use of child soldiers by at least two militia leaders offered positions
in the Congolese army. Earlier in the week,
Kofi Annan's envoy to the Congo, William
Lacy Swing, disclaimed his
previously UN-reported "welcoming" of the entry into the army of Mathieu
Ngudjolo of the Congolese Revolutionary or MRC.
The UN's
own June 13 report on children and armed conflict in the DR Congo alludes to the
recruitment of child soldiers by the MRC. In an interview Friday, a well-placed
UN official told Inner City Press that Mathieu Ngudjolo will be identified by
name as a child soldier user in the follow up to the June 13 report, as will
Peter Karim, who after holding seven UN peacekeepers hostage for over 40 days
has been offered a colonel's position in the Congolese army. The follow up
report name these two individuals will, Inner City Press has been told, be
confidential, adding to the scope of impunity.
Ballots
and Congolese police
Last week
UN peacekeeping's Dmitry Titov answered Inner City Press' questions about Karim
by saying that "justice will come, eventually." The official interviewed Friday
similarly implied that as with Thomas Lubanga and Jean Pierre Biyoyo,
respectively charged by the International Criminal Court and convicted by a
Congolese military court in Bukavu, Ngudjolo and Karim might one day face
justice. It is hard to believe that neither warlord brought up issues of amnesty
during negotiations. No one yet has wanted to detail the specifics of the
negotiations, particularly the degree of UN involvement. Developing.
Zimbabwe Fog, Laws of
War Clarified, Tips in the Half-Light (on Lebanon)
While
Kofi Annan is on the island of Hispanola, at his spokesman's noon briefing Inner
City Press again asked for the UN's and Mr. Annan's response to the hundreds of
Zimbabwean protesters demanding UN action on
the UN's report on Operation Murambatsvina or "Clean Out the Trash," in which
the Mugabe government evicted at least 700,000 perceived political opponents.
Rather than yesterday's cursory reference to Zimbabwe's sovereignty, on Friday
UN spokesman Farhan Haq stated that Ben Mkapa, Mugabe's selected envoy,
particularly to the UK, will be in charge of addressing and asking on Operation
Murambatsvina as detailed in the UN report. We'll see.
Also at
the noon briefing, Inner City Press asked if the UN agrees with Israel that
placing telephone calls to civilians before bombing the neighborhoods they live
in brings the bombing in compliance with the laws of war. After the briefing,
the spokesman referred the press corps to a
statement by
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour that "while effective
advance warning of attacks which may affect the civilian population must be
given, this legal obligation does not absolve the parties to the conflict of
their other obligations under international law regarding the protection of
civilians" and "that international humanitarian law requires all parties to
avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas."
In the
half-light of the Security Council stakeout at 2:50 p.m., the Palestinian
Permanent Observer to the UN called over Inner City Press. "Do you want a tip?"
he said. Of course. He detailed a group of ambassadors, including from Sudan,
Syria, Azerbaijan and Malaysia, slated now to meet with the Council president
then with Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown at 5 p.m.. The spokesman's
office, asked by Inner City Press, confirmed the meeting, which ambassadors say
will concern more bombing of civilians, although reference to Azerbaijan's
representative, for OIC, was not included. As another reporter noted, "the real
action is at the U.S. mission."
At 4
p.m., the president of the Security Council emerged. He apologized for not
summarizing the meeting, saying he feels a need to tell the other Council
members before telling the press. He mentioned he lived in Westchester and Inner
City Press asked, where? New Rochelle. Do you go to New Roc City? With a look of
surprise he said yes, "I am a New York boy." More substantively, and full circle
for this report, he answered Inner City Press' question about the burning of
ballots in Congo by saying he hope for another briefing next week. We'll see.
UN
Still Silent on Somalia, Despite Reported Invasion, In Lead-Up to More Congo
Spin
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED
NATIONS, August 1 -- When troops of one country invade another, what does the UN
do? It depends.
In the
face of widespread reporting of Ethiopian troops in Somalia, Inner City Press
has for the last two days asked Kofi Annan's spokesman's office for confirmation
and comment on this fact. Monday the response was that the UN "is not in the
position" to ascertain whether there are Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia.
Tuesday the spokeswoman quoted Kofi
Annan's envoy to Somalia
Francois Lonseny Fall "at the IGAD meeting in Nairobi" on the importance of
continuing the "dialogue between the Transitional Federal Government and the
Supreme Council of Islamic Courts." Given that the TFG had in the past 24 hours
postponed the dialogue in Khartoum for at
least 15 days, Inner City Press
asked what Mr. Fall was referring to, whether it took into account the
postponement and the further defection of ministers from the TFG cabinet. "He's
aware of press reports," the spokesman answered.
Among the
members of the regional group IGAD are Ethiopia and Eritrea. So Inner City Press
asked, did Francois Lonseny Fall at least at the meeting ask the Ethiopian
representative if his country's troops have cross into Somalia? "I have his
statement," was the answer. And nothing more to say? Apparently not.
In
the UN's blind spot
The next
part of the
noon briefing,
much longer -- one wag said "disproportionate" -- concerned events in Lebanon.
It was said that three hospitals in south Lebanan have closed for lack of fuel.
Inner City Press asked for the hospitals' names and locations, beyond Bint Jbeil,
and asked for more information on the attack on the UN's building in Beirut. The
spokesman emphasized that the Lebanese government and Hezbollah both appealed to
the crowd to stop the attack. There were no injuries, he said. The staff had
been evacuated. The scope and cost of material damage has yet to be assessed.
And what
of the less tangible damage to the United Nations' image? At UN Headquarters
Tuesday, the mood was slow and languid. Drifting out from the Security Council
were the U.S. Jackie Sanders and the income Council president, the Ambassador of
Ghana. Maybe later this week, both in essence said. Maybe.
What if
the Council has a building in Beirut? The operational side of the UN is not
paralyzed. The World Food Program is charged with getting fuel into Beirut.
Twenty-five WFP staff
were in fact in the building
in Beirut was it was attacked. Monday's New York Times spoke of the U.S.
teetering on the brink of a public relations disaster. But the U.S. has stronger
building, further set back from the street. The UN Secretariat brings out the
big guns on Lebanon, without as yet effect. On another invasion, and the crisis
in Somalia, very little is said or done.
Monday
the spokesman's office referred Inner City Press, on the current question of the
TFG's allegation that Egypt, Libya and Iran are supporting the Islamic Courts
Union, to a months-old experts report on sanctions violators, S/2006/229. The
report describes arms shipment to the warlords and TFG; only Eritrea is
presenting at supporting what the report calls militant Islamic fundamentalists.
According to the report, Ethiopia drove 10 trucks to Jowhar, including 2000
AK-47s and 100 rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launchers. Yemen provided the TFG
with 15 Toyota Land Cruiser pickup trucks, to be converted into technicals. The
report refers to "clandestine third-party involvement in Somalia" in support of
the "Alliance for Peace Restoration and Combat Against Terror," APRCT. The
report states that the "Monitoring Group did not specify third-country
involvement because at the time of the writing of the present report it had not
completed its investigation." And now? Francois Lonseny Fall, where are you?
Fewer
questions exist about William Lacy Swing, at least tomorrow. At 2 p.m. Wednesday
in New York, Mr. Swing will appear on a video screen on the 32nd floor of UN
Headquarters. With
new allegations of fraud in the elections,
and outstanding questions about the incorporation of warlords into the Congolese
army and the quickly-released and now-apparently-ongoing investigation into the
events at the village of Kazana, here's hoping that the video hook-up stays
strong.
Other Inner City Press
reports are archived on
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Impunity's in
the Air, at the UN in Kinshasa and NY, for Kony and Karim and MONUC for
Kazana
UN Still Silent
on Somalia, Despite Reported Invasion, In Lead-Up to More Congo Spin
UN's Guehenno
Says Congo Warlord Just Needs Training, and Kazana Probe Continues
With Congo
Elections Approaching, UN Issues Hasty Self-Exoneration as Annan Is
Distracted
In DR Congo, UN
Applauds Entry into Army of Child-Soldier Commander Along with Kidnapper
Spinning the
Congo, UN Admits Hostage Deal with Warlord That Put Him in Congolese
Army
At the UN, Dow
Chemical's Invited In, While Teaming Up With Microsoft is Defended
Kofi Annan
Questioned about Congolese Colonel Who Kidnapped Seven UN Soldiers
At the UN,
Speeches While Gaza Stays Lightless and Insurance Not Yet Paid
At the UN
Poorest Nations Discussed, Disgust at DRC Short Shrift, Future UN
Justice?
At the UN
Wordsmiths Are At Work on Zimbabwe, Kony, Ivory Coast and Iran
UN Silent As
Congolese Kidnapper of UN Peacekeepers Is Made An Army Colonel: News
Analysis
At
the UN, New Phrase Passes Resolution called Gangster-Like by North Korea; UK
Deputy on the Law(less)
UN's Guehenno
Speaks of "Political Overstretch" Undermining Peacekeeping in Lower
Profile Zones
In Gaza Power
Station, the Role of Enron and the U.S. Government's OPIC Revealed by UN
Sources
At UN, North
Korean Knot Attacked With Fifty Year Old Precedent, Game Continues Into
Weekend
UN's Corporate
Partnerships Will Be Reviewed, While New Teaming Up with Microsoft, and
UNDP Continues
Gaza Resolution
Vetoed by U.S., While North Korea Faces Veto and Chechnya Unread
BTC Briefing,
Like Pipeline, Skirts Troublespots, Azeri Revelations
Conflicts of
Interest in UNHCR Program with SocGen and Pictet Reveal Reform Rifts
At the UN, A Day
of Resolutions on Gaza, North Korea and Iran, Georgia as Side Dish
UN Grapples with
Somalia, While UNDP Funds Mugabe's Human Rights Unit, Without
Explanation
In North Korean
War of Words, Abuses in Uganda and Impunity Go Largely Ignored
On North Korea,
Blue Words Move to a Saturday Showdown, UNDP Uzbek Stonewall
As the World
Turns in Uganda and Korea, the UN Speaks only on Gaza, from Geneva
North Korea in
the UN: Large Arms Supplant the Small, and Confusion on Uganda
UN Gives Mugabe
Time with His Friendly Mediator, Refugees Abandoned
At the UN,
Friday Night's Alright for Fighting; Annan Meets Mugabe
UN Acknowledges
Abuse in Uganda, But What Did Donors Know and When? Kazakh Questions
In Uganda, UNDP
to Make Belated Announcement of Program Halt, But Questions Remain (and
see
The New Vision,
offsite).
Disarmament
Abuse in Uganda Leads UN Agency to Suspend Its Work and Spending
Disarmament
Abuse in Uganda Blamed on UNDP, Still Silent on Finance
Alleged Abuse in
Disarmament in Uganda Known by UNDP, But Dollar Figures Still Not Given:
What Did UN Know and When?
Strong Arm on
Small Arms: Rift Within UN About Uganda's Involuntary Disarmament of
Karamojong Villages
UN in Denial on
Sudan, While Boldly Predicting the Future of Kosovo/a
UN's Selective
Vision on Somalia and Wishful Thinking on Uighurs
UN Habitat
Predicts The World Is a Ghetto, But Will Finance Be Addressed at
Vancouver World Urban Forum?
At the UN, a
Commando Unit to Quickly Stop Genocide is Proposed, by Diplomatic Sir
Brian Urquhart
UN's Annan
Concerned About Use of Terror's T-Word to Repress, Wants
Freedom of Information
UN Waffles on
Human Rights in Central Asia and China; ICC on Kony and a Hero from
Algiers
At the UN,
Internal Justice Needs Reform, While in Timor Leste, Has Evidence Gone
Missing?
UN & US,
Transparency for Finance But Not Foreign Affairs: Somalia, Sovereignty
and Senator Tom Coburn
In Bolton's Wake,
Silence and Speech at the UN, Congo and Kony, Let the Games Begin
Pro-Poor Talk and
a Critique of the World Trade Organization from a WTO Founder: In UN
Lull, Ugandan Fog and Montenegrin Mufti
Human Rights
Forgotten in UN's War of Words, Bolton versus Mark Malloch Brown: News
Analysis
In Praise of
Migration, UN Misses the Net and Bangalore While Going Soft on Financial
Exclusion
UN Sees Somalia
Through a Glass, Darkly, While Chomsky Speaks on Corporations and
Everything But Congo
AIDS Ends at the
UN? Side Deals on Patents, Side Notes on Japanese Corporations,
Salvadoran and Violence in Burundi
On AIDS at the
UN, Who Speaks and Who Remains Unseen
Corporate Spin on
AIDS, Holbrooke's Kudos to Montenegro and its Independence (May 31, 2006)
Kinshasa Election
Nightmares, from Ituri to Kasai. Au Revoir Allan Rock; the UN's
Belly-Dancing
Working with
Warlords, Insulated by Latrines: Somalia and Pakistan Addressed at the
UN
The Silence of
the Congo and Naomi Watts; Between Bolivia and the World Bank
Human Rights
Council Has Its Own Hanging Chads; Cocky U.S. State Department Spins
from SUVs
Child Labor and
Cargill and Nestle; Iran, Darfur and WHO's on First with Bird Flu
Press Freedom?
Editor Arrested by Congo-Brazzaville, As It Presides Over Security
Council
The
Place of the Cost-Cut UN in Europe's Torn-Up Heart;
Deafness to Consumers, Even by the Greens
Background Checks
at the UN, But Not the Global Compact; Teaching Statistics from
Turkmenbashi's Single Book
Ripped Off Worse
in the Big Apple, by Citigroup and Chase: High Cost Mortgages Spread in
Outer Boroughs in 2005, Study Finds
Burundi: Chaos at
Camp for Congolese Refugees, Silence from UNHCR, While Reform's Debated
by Forty Until 4 AM
In Liberia, From
Nightmare to Challenge; Lack of Generosity to Egeland's CERF, Which
China's Asked About
The Chadian
Mirage: Beyond French Bombs, Is Exxon In the Cast? Asylum and the
Uzbeks, Shadows of Stories to Come
Through the UN's
One-Way Mirror, Sustainable Development To Be Discussed by Corporations,
Even Nuclear Areva
Racial
Disparities Grew Worse in 2005 at Citigroup, HSBC and Other Large Banks
Mine Your Own
Business: Explosive Remnants of War and the Great Powers, Amid the
Paparazzi
Human Rights Are
Lost in the Mail: DR Congo Got the Letter, But the Process is Still
Murky
Iraq's Oil to be
Metered by Shell, While Basrah Project Remains Less than Clear
At the UN, Dues
Threats and Presidents-Elect, Unanswered Greek Mission Questions
Kofi, Kony,
Kagame and Coltan: This Moment in the Congo and Kampala
As Operation
Swarmer Begins, UN's Qazi Denies It's Civil War and Has No Answers if
Iraq's Oil is Being Metered
Cash Crop: In
Nepal, Bhutanese Refugees Prohibited from Income Generation Even in
their Camps
The Shorted and
Shorting in Humanitarian Aid: From Davos to Darfur, the Numbers Don't
Add Up
UN Reform:
Transparency Later, Not Now -- At Least Not for AXA - WFP Insurance
Contract
In Congolese
Chaos, Shots Fired at U.N. Helicopter Gunship
In the Sudanese
Crisis, Oil Revenue Goes Missing, UN Says
Empty Words on
Money Laundering and Narcotics, from the UN and Georgia
What is the Sound
of Eleven Uzbeks Disappearing? A Lack of Seats in Tashkent, a Turf War
at UN
Kosovo: Of
Collective Punishment and Electricity; Lights Out on Privatization of
Ferronikeli Mines
Abkhazia:
Cleansing and (Money) Laundering, Says Georgia
Post-Tsunami
Human Rights Abuses, including by UNDP in the Maldives
Who Pays for the
Global Bird Flu Fight? Not the Corporations, So Far - UN
Citigroup
Dissembles at United Nations Environmental Conference
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