New York - The UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, yesterday unveiled a plan for Africa designed to help bring an end to wars and destabilisation in seven countries: Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Mr Annan's blueprint for action by UN member-states would curb arms sales and covert arms trafficking, end economic sanctions which harm civilians, accept the Organisation of African Unity's plan to cancel all debt for the poorest countries, and toughen the administration of refugee camps so that civilians can no longer be used as shields for terrorists.
The report says, of Rwanda, Somalia and Liberia, that "by not averting these colossal human tragedies, African leaders have failed the peoples of Africa; the international community has failed them; the UN has failed them".