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The United Nations has conceded that it will be the best part of a year before joint UN African Union peacekeepers are fully deployed in Darfur. The force had been due to take over at the end of 2007, with the strength of 26000. Mary Harper reports.
The head of United Nations Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno said the reason for the delay was that not enough troops had been contributed to the force. Out of the 26000 military personnel needed for the joint UN African Union operation, only 9000 have been deployed, with the full force not expected on the ground until towards the end of this year at the earliest. There’s little prospect of any meaningful security returning to Darfur.
Violence has again spread across the Rift Valley and western provinces of Kenya, more than a month after the disputed presidential election. Police said at least 14 people were killed on Monday in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha. A local journalist, //, described the situation in the town.
The situation in Naivasha is horrific and horrendous. /// thousands of people who are /// are camping in the police station and others are camping in the prison compound. Gangs of the cruel men armed with machete, stick, sharpened knife are actually running around the city.
A number of others were killed in the western town of Eldoret in Kisumu. A British Foreign Office Minister visiting Kenya, Lord Malloch Brown said the country was in danger of falling over the edge.
The French trader, the center of the scandal over the huge losses of the country’s second largest bank, Jerome Kerviel has escaped serious charges of attempted embezzlement. Instead, he’s been placed under investigation for breach of trust, fabricating documents and computer fraud. The process could lead to a trial and a prison sentence of up to three years, half the penalty applying to the more serious accusations. Earlier, President Sarkozy said the top management of the bank, Societe Generale, should face consequences in connection with the affair.
I don’t want to judge individual people, especially during a difficult time. But the system is such that people who are paid extremely well for the work they do must also take responsibility when things go badly wrong.
Meanwhile, a report by the French stock market regulator says a member of Societe Generale supervisorary board // and two foundations that he’s linked to, sold shares in the bank worth 140 million dollars two weeks before the bank’s multi-billion-dollar losses were publicly disclosed. The bank has rejected any suggestion of insider trading saying the shares were sold well before the losses were known. A group of Societe Generale shareholders have called on the French authorities to investigate.
You are listening to World News from the BBC.
In what correspondents say could be a key move in the race for the White House, the influential Senator Edward Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Mr. Kennedy said the Illinois Senator appealed to the hopes of those who still believe in the American dream and compared him to John F. Kennedy. He said Kennedy too had been a young candidate challenging America to cross a new frontier.
The Russian election authorities have halved the number of foreign observers for the presidential election in less than five weeks. The chairman of the election commission said 400 would be permitted with the biggest European monitoring body from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe invited to send 70. Richard Galpin reports.
The issue of foreign observers has become a source of friction between Russia and the West, after the Russian authorities cut the numbers right down for the parliamentary election last month. This along with delays to visas and restrictions on what could be said publicly about the conduct of the election, led the OSCE to abandon its missions to Russia. Now the OSCE is once again debating whether it’s worth coming to Moscow.
The European Union has failed to reach a common position on signing a deal on closer ties with Serbia. It initialed in November. But EU Foreign Ministers have agreed an interim arrangement covering trade and visas. The Netherlands opposed fully until it satisfies Serbia's cooperating fully with efforts to arrest the fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic, for trial in The Hague. The interim deal will be signed after next Sunday's presidential runoff in Serbia.
Five American soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul in northern Iraq. The city has been targeted by the US military and Iraqi government troops in an offensive against al-Qaeda. Correspondents say violence in Mosul increased as al-Qaeda militants have regrouped there after being driven out of Baghdad and Anbar Province by security operations last year.
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The United Nations has conceded that it will be the best part of a year before joint UN African Union peacekeepers are fully deployed in Darfur. The force had been due to take over at the end of 2007, with the strength of 26000. Mary Harper reports.
The head of United Nations Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno said the reason for the delay was that not enough troops had been contributed to the force. Out of the 26000 military personnel needed for the joint UN African Union operation, only 9000 have been deployed, with the full force not expected on the ground until towards the end of this year at the earliest. There’s little prospect of any meaningful security returning to Darfur.
Violence has again spread across the Rift Valley and western provinces of Kenya, more than a month after the disputed presidential election. Police said at least 14 people were killed on Monday in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha. A local journalist, //, described the situation in the town.
The situation in Naivasha is horrific and horrendous. /// thousands of people who are /// are camping in the police station and others are camping in the prison compound. Gangs of the cruel men armed with machete, stick, sharpened knife are actually running around the city.
A number of others were killed in the western town of Eldoret in Kisumu. A British Foreign Office Minister visiting Kenya, Lord Malloch Brown said the country was in danger of falling over the edge.
The French trader, the center of the scandal over the huge losses of the country’s second largest bank, Jerome Kerviel has escaped serious charges of attempted embezzlement. Instead, he’s been placed under investigation for breach of trust, fabricating documents and computer fraud. The process could lead to a trial and a prison sentence of up to three years, half the penalty applying to the more serious accusations. Earlier, President Sarkozy said the top management of the bank, Societe Generale, should face consequences in connection with the affair.
I don’t want to judge individual people, especially during a difficult time. But the system is such that people who are paid extremely well for the work they do must also take responsibility when things go badly wrong.
Meanwhile, a report by the French stock market regulator says a member of Societe Generale supervisorary board // and two foundations that he’s linked to, sold shares in the bank worth 140 million dollars two weeks before the bank’s multi-billion-dollar losses were publicly disclosed. The bank has rejected any suggestion of insider trading saying the shares were sold well before the losses were known. A group of Societe Generale shareholders have called on the French authorities to investigate.
You are listening to World News from the BBC.
In what correspondents say could be a key move in the race for the White House, the influential Senator Edward Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Mr. Kennedy said the Illinois Senator appealed to the hopes of those who still believe in the American dream and compared him to John F. Kennedy. He said Kennedy too had been a young candidate challenging America to cross a new frontier.
The Russian election authorities have halved the number of foreign observers for the presidential election in less than five weeks. The chairman of the election commission said 400 would be permitted with the biggest European monitoring body from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe invited to send 70. Richard Galpin reports.
The issue of foreign observers has become a source of friction between Russia and the West, after the Russian authorities cut the numbers right down for the parliamentary election last month. This along with delays to visas and restrictions on what could be said publicly about the conduct of the election, led the OSCE to abandon its missions to Russia. Now the OSCE is once again debating whether it’s worth coming to Moscow.
The European Union has failed to reach a common position on signing a deal on closer ties with Serbia. It initialed in November. But EU Foreign Ministers have agreed an interim arrangement covering trade and visas. The Netherlands opposed fully until it satisfies Serbia's cooperating fully with efforts to arrest the fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic, for trial in The Hague. The interim deal will be signed after next Sunday's presidential runoff in Serbia.
Five American soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul in northern Iraq. The city has been targeted by the US military and Iraqi government troops in an offensive against al-Qaeda. Correspondents say violence in Mosul increased as al-Qaeda militants have regrouped there after being driven out of Baghdad and Anbar Province by security operations last year.
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