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Archive (20 August 2008)
ROMANIA / NITRATES (2.42)
(20 August 2008) - Subsistence farmers in Romania face the same problem as huge industrial livestock operations in the US: manure runoff. Animal waste is leaching into wells and waters that feed the Danube and raising nitrate levels in the Black Sea. WORLD BANK
UN / MIDDLE EAST (1.59)
(20 August 2008) - Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe tells the Security Council that the benefits of the current ceasefire have not yet translated into "any significant improvement in the living conditions of the people of Gaza." UNTV
SOMALIA / IDPS (2.13)
(20 August 2008) - In "100-Bush", one of the internally displaced (IDPs) camps in Bossaso, northeast Somalia, hundreds of people have lined up since early morning under the burning sun – many of them women carrying their babies on their back. UNICEF is providing every child in this camp under five with UNIMIX, a porridge like food supplement rich with vitamins and minerals. UNICEF
UN / GEORGIA (2.24)
(20 August 2008) - Russian, French and U.S. Ambassadors comment on the latest developments on Georgia. UNTV
INDONESIA / BIRD FLU (1.36)
(20 August 2008) - Thousands of Indonesian boys and girls gather in Sukabumi West Java to celebrate national scouting day. But this year there was something new – a pledge to battle a global threat that has hit this country the hardest, bird flu. UNICEF
