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US Offers Sudan New Incentives For Peace Deals (Voice of America)

(Sudan) The United States is offering Sudan the prospect of restoring full diplomatic
relations if it improves conditions in the western Darfur region and does not undermine
a referendum that could lead to the secession of the country’s south.

U.S. Hails Jonathan On Niger-Delta (Leadership - Abuja)

(Nigeria) The United States Assistant Secretary, Mr. Johnie Carson has lauded
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan over the role of his government in bringing peace
and security to the Nigeri-Delta region.

Hung up on the Horn of Africa (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

(Horn of Africa) With the exception of countries the United States has wrecked through
wars -- Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan -- the area where we have done the most
damage in recent years probably is the Horn of Africa

Gates to Support EAC Medicines Bid (East African Business Week)

(East Africa) The East African Community is to receive $9.5 million from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, a representative of the World Bank Mr. Andreas Seiter said
last week at a meeting convened to work out modalities of a harmonized regime for
registration of medicines in the region.

Congolese army launches operation in mining territory (AFP)

(Congo) The army in Democratic Army of Congo plans to launch a campaign in the
territory of Walikale in the east, where several armed groups illegally exploit mines,
military officials said Tuesday.

Ugandan army dismisses U.N. accusations of Congo crimes (Reuters)

(Uganda) The Ugandan army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked U.N. draft
on atrocities in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo that it committed war
crimes during operations there in the 1990s.

Somaliland: Up to 300 Ethiopian rebels surrounded (Associated Press)

(Somaliland) Authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland say their troops
have surrounded up to 300 Ethiopian rebels who entered the territory illegally.

Nigeria, poised for big growth, aims to be the next 'BRIC' country (Christian Science
Monitor)
(Nigeria) Africa's most populous nation insists it is on the brink of joining BRIC,
shoehorning its strident N (for Nigeria) between the software labs of India and China's
sprawling smokestack farms.

Setbacks Plague Guinea Vote (Associated Press)

(Guinea) The confluence of disorder and bad luck means this weekend's long-awaited
vote will most likely be delayed again, a move that is sure to escalate tensions in this
West African nation.

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 Independent UN rights expert urges probe into recent Darfur attack on civilians
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UPCOMING EVENTS OF INTEREST:

WHEN/WHERE: Tuesday, September 21, 2:00 p.m., U.S. Institute of Peace

WHAT: Civil Society in Darfur: The Missing Peace
WHO: Theodore Murphy, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; Jérôme Tubiana,
Independent researcher; Jon Temin, Moderator,U.S. Institute of Peace
Info: http://www.usip.org/events/civil-society-in-darfur-the-missing-peace

WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, September 23, 9:00 a.m.

WHAT: Breakfast Briefing with The Honorable Robert P. Jackson, New Ambassador of
the United States to Cameroon
WHO: Business Council for International Understanding with Chevron Corporation
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US Offers Sudan New Incentives For Peace Deals (Voice of America)

The United States is offering Sudan the prospect of restoring full diplomatic relations if
it improves conditions in the western Darfur region and does not undermine a
referendum that could lead to the secession of the country’s south.
The U.S. envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, said Tuesday the United States has offered
Sudan a package of new incentives that include returning an ambassador to Khartoum,
providing economic aid, and supporting debt relief.

Gration said the U.S. proposal makes clear the benefits of progress while also holding
out the threat of additional sanctions against Sudan if progress is not made.

He said the United States is worried that time is running out to solve multiple
disagreements for organizing the referendum in the south and the possible
consequences of that vote.

The U.S. incentives package is part of a new push by the United States to resolve
decades of conflict in Sudan, which is trying to recover from 21 years of civil war in the
south and an ongoing insurgency in the western Darfur region.

U.S. President Barack Obama has agreed to attend a high-level meeting on Sudan on the
sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly later this month.

Southern Sudan holds a referendum in January on whether it should become

independent or should stay united with the north.

Most analysts predict the now semi-autonomous south will vote to secede from the
north and become an independent country.

Much of Sudan’s oil wealth is believed to lie along the disputed north-south border. The
oil-rich Abyei region is due to hold a separate vote January 9 on whether to be part of
the north or the south.

The separate conflict in the western Darfur region began more than seven years ago
when rebels rose up against Sudan’s government, accusing it of neglecting the region.
The United Nations says more than 300,000 people have been killed and 2.7 million
displaced from their homes. Sudan’s government puts the death toll much lower, at
10,000.

The International Criminal Court has indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for
alleged war crimes in Darfur.
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U.S. Hails Jonathan On Niger-Delta (Leadership - Abuja)

Washington DC — The United States Assistant Secretary, Mr. Johnie Carson has lauded
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan over the role of his government in bringing peace
and security to the Nigeri-Delta region.
Speaking during the United States- Niger Delta Binational Summit in Washington
yesterday, Mr. Johnie Carson stated that conflicts in the region has important
consequences for the United States in light of the energy interests, both security of
American personel and investment, and other stakes in the stability of Africa's most
populous state such as democracy, grand crime, and regional economic impacts.

Also, a statement made available to journalists by the Niger-Delta Working Group

during the event stated that a comprehensive approach by the Nigerian government
and its partnership to resolving the crisis in the Niger-Delta will involve promoting a
peace process, accelerating development in the region, improving governance, and
enhancing environmental protection and security.

It continued that Nigeria's Niger-Delta is a major source of oil and gas production
including large exports to the United States, adding that a combination of local
grievances, poor governances and corruption, criminal activity and inflows of arms
have increased insecurity in the Delta itself in recent years.
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Hung up on the Horn of Africa (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

(Horn of Africa) With the exception of countries the United States has wrecked through
wars -- Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan -- the area where we have done the most
damage in recent years probably is the Horn of Africa..

The Horn of Africa is generally defined to include Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and
Somalia, the "horn" part referring to the fact that the African coastline in the northeast
takes that shape. Looking at the region strategically, Sudan belongs to the Horn as well.

I take full responsibility for my own part in what has occurred in the Horn, having
served as U.S. ambassador and special envoy to Somalia during the relatively ruinous
years of 1994 and 1995, but there is a fundamental problem for the United States in
devising policy toward the area: The people there have an unfortunate, pronounced
predisposition to settle problems among themselves by warfare and violence.

They are fractious and heavily armed. If they ever lack arms, they do not hesitate to sell
whatever they have to sell to get them -- including their allegiances or humanitarian
food deliveries from abroad intended for their hungry populations. The regime of
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a sometime-favorite of American leaders,
provided the most recent example.

The people of the Horn are also enterprising in getting assistance, including military
assistance, from American administrations. It took the Ethiopians and some of the
Somalis no time to figure out that America's hot button since 9/11 has been "Islamic
terrorism." Suggesting that one's enemy was infected by -- or even in touch with -- al-
Qaida or some other radical Islamic group was enough not only to get U.S. military aid,
but even to get the Americans to attack the enemy in question.

That particular vulnerability on America's part has become even more severe in recent
years as the U.S. military has come to play a large role in determining and carrying out
U.S. policy in the Horn. Part of this phenomenon is an accident of history.

For many years the United States had no military command dedicated to Africa. When I
was deputy commandant of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in 1993-1994 I
wrote a monograph in which I noted that there were military commands for Asia,
Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia but none for Africa. This, I
argued, was to slight Africa: It showed a lack of respect that there was no military-to-
military contact and none of the ample Department of Defense resources flowing to
Africa.

The Pentagon, certainly not because of my advocacy, created an African Command in

2008. Because none of the African countries where AFRICOM might have liked to have
been located wanted its headquarters, AFRICOM continues to be based in Germany. Its
one base in Africa is in Djibouti, in the Horn.

In late 2006, claiming radical Islamic activity in Somalia, Ethiopia, backed by U.S. arms,
aircraft, intelligence and possibly special operations forces, invaded Somalia. The
Somalis hate the Ethiopians a lot, dating in part from the 1970s when the United States
supported the Ethiopians against them, then switched sides and supported the Somalis
in a Cold War-era regional war. Eventually the Somalis "convinced" the Ethiopians to
go home in 2009.

The bad part for the Somalis came in the fact that the only stable government it's had
since its armies forced dictator Mohamed Siad-Barre out in 1991 was an Islamic Courts
regime that was in power in Mogadishu for the six months preceding the Ethiopian
invasion. This government was relatively moderate in Islamic terms. (When I was in
Somalia in the 1990s, Somalis in general were moderate Sunni Muslims. The women
did not go veiled, wore bright colors and played public roles in society.)

By the time the Ethiopians had been driven out, the Islamic Courts had morphed into
the more radical and religiously rigid al-Shabab. In the meantime, the world had
organized a Somali "transitional" government in Kenya -- after years of arm-twisting
and bribes -- that was installed in Mogadishu under foreign, African Union protection.
The members of this "government," busily fighting among themselves, are now
cornered in a few square blocks in Mogadishu, and the African Union troops, from
Uganda and Burundi, are cursing the day they got dragged into the intra-Somali
conflict.
My guess is that pretty soon al-Shabab will overrun the transitional government
enclave, forcing the flight of the fickle government forces and obliging the AU to leave.
I fervently hope the Americans at the base in neighboring Djibouti do not intervene to
help the government hold on against the al-Shabab forces. But I don't rule that out.

In the meantime, elsewhere in the Horn, Ethiopia and Eritrea, both with undemocratic,
heavy-handed governments, continue to quarrel with each other as they have since
Eritrea's breakaway from Ethiopia in 1993. Djibouti hangs on -- a tiny, reasonably
democratic state of 850,000 living like a chihuahua sleeping among pit bulls.

Sudan is what needs to be watched now. The basic problem there is that an agreement
brokered in 2005, including by the United States, provides for the people in the south to
vote on independence in 2011. The South undoubtedly will choose independence. But
the current government is based in the north, in Khartoum, and most of the country's
oil wealth is located in the south -- a recipe for conflict. The Obama administration is
having internal policy differences over what U.S. policy toward Sudan should be.

I would suggest that Sudan's fate is, almost entirely, none of America's business. Last of
all should U.S. military resources based in Djibouti come into play in seeking to
determine one outcome or another in Sudan.

Just because you think you can do something doesn't mean you should, particularly in
the Horn of Africa.
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Gates to Support EAC Medicines Bid (East African Business Week)

Arusha, Tanzania — The East African Community is to receive $9.5 million from the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a representative of the World Bank Mr. Andreas
Seiter said last week at a meeting convened to work out modalities of a harmonized
regime for registration of medicines in the region.

At the joint meeting of; EAC Secretariat, World Bank, NEPAD, WHO and GTZ, held at
the EAC headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania, Mr. Seiter said there is every indication that
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the World Bank will accept a proposal
to fund the project on Medicines Registration Harmonization in the EAC Partner States.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, or the Gates Foundation, was founded by
multi-billionaire Bill and wife Melinda Gates. Globally, the primary aims of the
foundation are to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty.

"I believe early next year the review of the proposal of the project on Medicines
Registration Harmonization will be done and at that time the Gates Foundation through
World Bank Trust Fund will be in a position give out a grant of 9.5 million dollars to
EAC," Mr. Seiter said.
As part of regional cooperation on health, the EAC Partner States have initiated the
process of harmonization of the manufacture, import, trade, sale and export of all
medicine and health supplies within the region through the legal mandate of the
existing National Medicines Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) in each of the Partner
States.

However, there is a need to institutionalize and fast track the regional harmonization of
medicines regulation in order to fully realize the benefits of the growing pharmaceutical
industry in the region and also to ensure easy access to affordable, safe and quality
essential medicines and health supplies for both local use and export to the
international markets.

The one-day Medicine Registration Harmonization meeting was convened with the aim
of negotiating a harmonized and functioning medicines registration system within the
East African Community in accordance with national and internationally recognized
policies and standards and to come up with mechanisms whereby the Partner States can
agree on common technical documents for registration of medicines. These standards
are targeted to be implemented in three years in at least three of the states within five
years.
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Congolese army launches operation in mining territory (AFP)

KINSHASA – The army in Democratic Army of Congo plans to launch a campaign in

the territory of Walikale in the east, where several armed groups illegally exploit mines,
military officials said Tuesday.

The chief of general staff, General Didier Etumba, headed off Tuesday for Walikale
town, in the west of Nord Kivu province, to launch the offensive, the head of operations
in the province, Colonel Bobo Kakudji, told AFP.

"We must be rid of" Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of
Rwanda (FDLR) who "have fled" other territories for Walikale in the equatorial forest, a
military spokesman said.

Last Friday, President Joseph Kabila decided to immediately suspend mining in three
eastern provinces because of "the activities of mafia groups" behind the chronic
instability in the region, Mining Minister Martin Kabwelu said.

The government charged that both the military and civilians were illegally involved in
the mining in Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu and Maniema, which are rich in cassiterite and
coltan, the minerals used in the West to build telephones, computers and games
consoles.
Gold is also mined in these parts of the DR Congo.

"We are going to deploy a force to hunt down these rebels (...) who occupy the mining
quarries," the Nord-Kivu provincial minister of mines, D'Assise Masika, announced,
adding that military operations could take "one or two months."

Apart from the FDLR and local militias, some officers in the Congolese army, notably
former members of a rebel movement, the National Congress for the Defence of the
People (CNDP), are accused of exploiting the mines and benefitting from their wealth.

The CNDP rallied to Kinshasa early in 2009 and most of its fighters have been
integrated into the army.

The security situation has worsened in recent weeks in the two Kivu provinces, where
according to the UN, more than 500 women were raped between the end of July and the
end of August, mainly in assaults by members of armed groups.
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Ugandan army dismisses U.N. accusations of Congo crimes (Reuters)

KAMPALA – The Ugandan army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked U.N.

draft on atrocities in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo that it committed war
crimes during operations there in the 1990s.

Ugandan troops entered Congo in the 1990s to uproot the Allied Democratic Forces
(ADF), a rebel Ugandan group that had established bases there.

But Ugandan soldiers eventually got sucked into the country's various wars including
helping to topple the country's long-serving dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, and twice
clashing with their erstwhile ally, Rwanda.

The U.N. report, however, says Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) soldiers
committed grave crimes during its operations, some of which could be classified as war
crimes.

Felix Kulayigye, the UPDF's spokesman, said the U.N. charges were false because they
lacked detail and sound evidence.

"I dismiss that report as rubbish, absolute rubbish," he told Reuters.

"We've been through this before with the International Criminal Court which didn't
find any evidence of war crimes against the UPDF. Secondly, we conducted our own
judicial investigation which cleared us of such accusations."
The leaked report has sparked a diplomatic row between the United Nations and
Rwanda as it says troops from that country may have committed genocide in Congo.

Rwanda has threatened to pull its U.N. peacekeeping soldiers out of Sudan's Darfur
region in protest and the U.N. is delaying publication of the final report to give
concerned states a chance to comment.

REIGN OF TERROR

The U.N. report documents several incidents in Congo where UPDF soldiers are
accused of atrocities such as massacres of civilians, torture and destroying critical
civilian infrastructure.

"In the town of Beni, UPDF soldiers instituted a reign of terror for several years with
complete impunity. They carried out summary executions of civilians, arbitrarily
detained large numbers of people and subjected them to torture and various other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments," the report said.

The report said the UPDF used a particularly cruel form of detention that involved
putting detainees into deep holes in the ground, where they were forced to live exposed
to bad weather.

"What's the motive of the authors of this report? We currently have excellent relations
with DRC. Now are these authors aiming at achieving instability or chaos?" Kulayigye
said.

In one incident, the UPDF was accused of disabling the turbines on the Inga dam in
1998, depriving the capital Kinshasa and a large areas in the province of Bas-Congo of
electricity for three weeks.

The U.N. draft said this act had caused the deaths of numerous people by making
property essential to the survival of the civilian population unusable and that it could
be classified as a war crime under international humanitarian law.
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Somaliland: Up to 300 Ethiopian rebels surrounded (Associated Press)

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland say

their troops have surrounded up to 300 Ethiopian rebels who entered the territory
illegally.

Somaliland's military chief Gen. Elmi Robleh Furur said Tuesday the men were part of
Ethiopia's Ogaden National Liberation Front.
He displayed weapons, military training manuals written in Amharic and Somali, and a
wad of Eritrean bank notes allegedly seized from two men who had become separated
from the group.

Eritrea has long been accused of financing and supporting rebels in its much larger
neighbor, Ethiopia, with whom Somaliland enjoys good relations.

Somaliland has declared itself independent of war-ravaged Somalia in 1991 but is not
recognized by any other state.
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Nigeria, poised for big growth, aims to be the next 'BRIC' country (Christian Science
Monitor)

Dakar, Senegal - When financiers gather around conference tables to chat about the
world's fastest growing economies, they often speak of BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India,
China.

Soon, that four may be five. Below the Sahara Desert, which has long loomed like a risk
line for investors ("do not invest south of here"), Africa's most populous nation insists it
is on the brink of joining BRIC, shoehorning its strident N (for Nigeria) between the
software labs of India and China's sprawling smokestack farms.

Just listen to the finance ministry of the No. 3 supplier of US oil spout the numbers: By
2012, the ministry projects, Africa's second-biggest economy will be growing at a
breakneck 10 percent per year, matching the economic speed that transformed Beijing
from a city of bicycles to Buicks.

The electricity hurdle

One need caution that Finance Minister Olusegun Aganga's 10 percent prognosis relies
on a whopping assumption: Electricity. To score that kind of globe-tilting economic
performance, Nigeria must first clean out its Augean stable of an electric grid, whose
customers receive power as inconsistently as they pay for it. The government is inviting
foreign electric companies to buy up chunks of the grid, and consign flickering
brownouts to a historical memory.

Nigeria's generator and diesel salesman, who wield political power with their import
licenses, will certainly dash that notion wheresoever they can.

Meanwhile, an even more skeptical observer might ask, doesn't Aganga’s 10 percent
forecast belong to the species of miracle number that politicians flutter like flags in the
run-up to an election?
Yes, definitely, but economists think he's right. Strategist David Aserkoff at Exotix
investment bank projects 7.5 percent growth for the current uncertain year in Nigerian
politics.

If the country's accidental president and probable two-termer Goodluck Jonathan can
quash the diesel salesmen, Aserkoff says he envisions growth revving northward to
even 12 percent.

"10 or 12 percent growth," he says, "would be doing a China."

Plus, if Nigeria does grow at that rate, you'll find much less China in the nation's
market stalls. "You'll see Nigerian light manufacturing and retail expanding. More stuff
you buy on the street will say 'Made in Nigeria.' "

Beyond oil
The prospect of a Nigerian boom is one more goad for investors to reappraise a
continent that is still more bound to images of crisis than opportunity.

And Nigeria's growth is about more than oil.

"If you look at where [current economic growth] is coming from, it's coming from
agriculture, from small scale construction, from distribution and retail trade," says
Gregory Kronsten, an economist at CSL Stockbrokers Limited, a brokerage firm based
in Nigeria. "These are not sectors which enjoy much access to credit. So there's a
secondary assumption that if banks start lending to the real economy, plus the power
problems are fixed, double digit growth is plausible."
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Setbacks Plague Guinea Vote (Associated Press)

CONAKRY, Guinea—Only days before Guinea's historic presidential runoff election,

hundreds of thousands of voting cards haven't yet arrived and the trucks needed to
transport materials to distant villages are still idling at a warehouse in the capital.

The man initially tasked with overseeing Sunday's vote also has died in Paris, where he
had been rushed for treatment, a family friend said Tuesday.

The confluence of disorder and bad luck means this weekend's long-awaited vote will
most likely be delayed again, a move that is sure to escalate tensions in this West
African nation. Street brawls between supporters of rival political parties left one dead
and 54 wounded over the weekend.

"It is highly improbable that the election will be held this Sunday," said Boubacar
Diallo, the commission's director of planning. "It is a purely technical problem."
On Monday, Guinea's prime minister declined to directly answer whether the election
would in fact be delayed. However, he added: "We will not hold an election if this will
end in a fist-fight."

Many have hoped that the upcoming vote will mark a turning point for the troubled,
mineral-rich nation that has known only authoritarian rule since winning independence
from France in 1958. The first round of voting in June was met with excitement, but the
multiple delays since then have cast a pall over the runoff.

Leading presidential contender Cellou Dalein Diallo has accused the government of
purposely delaying the vote to give the No. 2 finisher Alpha Condé a chance to catch up
in the polls.

Guinea-based election expert Elizabeth Cote of the International Foundation for

Election Systems said political squabbles inside the commission had distracted the body
from getting ready for the historic vote. Those disputes include arguments over who
should have replaced the head of the commission, Ben Sekou Sylla, whose death was
announced Tuesday. Mr. Sylla was one of two officials charged with vote-tampering
during the first presidential poll in June. He was sentenced last week to one year in
prison.

Guinea had multiple elections during the 24-year rule of autocrat Lansana Conté, but
because the polls were openly rigged until his death two years ago no one gave much
thought to the mechanics of the vote, Ms. Cote said.

It was only after the first round of the current presidential race in June that election
authorities realized the flaws in the system, including the fact that there weren't enough
polling stations.

Between June and September, the commission spent weeks mapping more than 1,600
new polling centers, a time-consuming process that meant that other tasks fell by the
wayside, Ms. Cote said. For example, the envelopes in which voters must place their
ballots were supposed to be printed in Sweden. Boubacar Diallo said the papers haven't
yet been ordered because the financing fell through. His staff are due to meet this week
with another vendor in neighboring Senegal, but even if they agree on a price, he said it
is unlikely the envelopes will be ready in time for Sunday.

Voting cards for roughly one-tenth of the electorate are also still with a printer in South
Africa, he said. And even if the trucks carrying voting materials were to leave Guinea's
capital first thing Tuesday, they most likely won't reach the rain-soaked interior of the
country in time for Sunday's vote, where major towns are several days by road and
some remote polling stations can only be reached on foot.
Meanwhile, campaigning has remained suspended following the weekend's pre-
election violence. At party headquarters, Cellou Dalein Diallo's supporters spent
Monday in plastic lawn chairs planning what they would do if the election was again
delayed. Mr. Diallo got 44% of the vote during the first round, and his supporters are
convinced that he will win the election in a landslide against Mr. Condé, who got only
18%.

"If [Prime Minister] Jean-Marie Doré tries to delay the election one more time, he won't
be able to sleep anywhere in Guinea," said Ibrahima Baldé, 39, as the group of young
men surrounding him erupted in applause.
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UN News Service Africa Briefs
Full Articles on UN Website

Interim authorities, world community must play their part for Somali peace – Ban
14 September – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on war-torn Somalia’s
transitional authorities to end internal squabbles that are hampering key tasks, and
urging the international community to provide the military and financial aid needed to
counter extremist forces.

UN police helps train southern Sudanese police ahead of referenda

14 September – Police officers serving with the United Nations Mission in Sudan
(UNMIS) are helping train their counterparts in southern Sudan on providing security
during the upcoming referenda on the self-determination of the region.

Independent UN rights expert urges probe into recent Darfur attack on civilians
14 September – An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on
the Sudanese Government to urgently probe a recent attack in North Darfur that left
dozens of civilians dead.