AS THE United Nations labours to
clear the mess it has been accused of
creating in providing refugee relief in
Somalia and in the elections and
peace process in Angola, World
Health Organisation director-general
Hiroshi Nakajima is attempting to
pre-empt complaints of still another
delay. He called on the international
community to tackle the dangerously
deteriorating health condition of
about 300,000 people displaced by
factional fighting in the central
African state of Rwanda, which has a
population of 7 million. Says
Nakajima, "Food and medical supplies are running out and if international support is not immediately
reinforced, we are soon going to face
another nutritional crisis on the
African continent."
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