United Nations Radio

UN and Africa - a weekly 15-minute radio programme on political, social, economic and other developments related to Africa.

Michele Falavigna

- The humanitarian agency, OCHA, is concerned about growing insecurity in eastern Chad where a Red Cross relief worker was kidnapped recently. UN Resident Coordinator for Chad, Michele Falavigna, says humanitarian actors in Chad are facing a new situation of insecurity as a result of banditry and criminality.

Eastern and Horn of Africa region faces impending food crisis

Horn of Africa

- People in the East and Horn of Africa are facing an impending food crisis as a result of the worst drought in the region in almost a decade, high food prices and the global economic crisis. To make things worse, conflict in Somalia has displaced tens of thousands of people and forced others to flee mainly to neighbouring Kenya.

Kenya launches campaign to circumcise 1.1 million men

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- Kenya has launched a campaign to circumcise over one million men by 2013 as part of efforts to decrease HIV infection rates. That's almost their entire adult male population between the ages of 15 and 49. Cate Hankins of UNAIDS says Kenya has an advantage because 85 per cent of adult Kenyan men are already circumcised

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