The youth were yesterday challenged to help enforce the Children's Act. The Kenya Girl Guides Association patron, Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, asked the youth to contribute to the operation of the new law. However, she clarified that the law required the effort of children, parents and the government.

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) met to hear the introduction of draft proposals relating to the elimination of racism and racial discrimination. Before the Committee were four draft resolutions, three of them -- all sponsored by Venezuela --relating respectively to the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination; the follow-up to the World Conference against Racism; and measures to combat contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination.

An attack by Lendu militiamen last Friday morning on the Hema village of Kparnganza, north of Bunia town in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which, according to news organisations, left 200 people dead, constitutes yet another urgent warning that the security situation is deteriorating in the area and could get worse if something is not done to abate it.

After a meeting with Thabo Mbeki, G8 officials insited that NEPAD was about changing the relationship between the developed world and Africa, and not primarily about money.