Hi everyone,
Just a few words in between many appointments...
My third week has started so quickly, and the BBC as well as Kenyan news keeps me busy.
Today, I visited for the first time the United Nations compound of Nairobi. I had a meeting with the UNICEF chief of communication. After crossing the beautiful forest of the Gigiri neighbourhood where are located all the UN offices, I just needed to go through security checking and a little 10-minute walk before I ended up in Block E, ground floor, room 101. The UNICEF documentation on children's safety and health is amazingly numerous and the generated a lot of story ideas for the coming weeks.
The UN was also hosting a conference on Health and Drugs' production on the African continent, organised by the World Health Organisation and the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostic Innovation, ANDI. I managed to do an interview with the Congolese Professor Wembonyama, researcher at the Lumumbashi University, in Katanga, on this issue.
Coming back from the UN, I started editing a package on the African Women's Decade to be launched in Nairobi this Friday. The whole week, the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, in downtown Nairobi, is hosting a large number of conferences on Women's empowerment and Genders equity. Yesterday, I went to listen to some of the debates and interviewed a few delegates from Benin, Rwanda, DRC or Kenya. The story should be on the BBC French Service in our 16.00 GMT Edition today, and in our evening programme, BBC Soir.
Yet, to follow, preparations around the International Criminal Court on post electoral violence (in 2007-08) and the Hand Wash day on Friday 15th. MSF / Doctors without Borders is also preparing a conference for World Food Day (october 16th)... More soon.
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