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- UN seeks safe passage to Libya for WFP cargo
A three-month, $38 million operation launched by the World Food Programme to provide food aid inside Libya is in jeopardy because owners of cargo vessels are reluctant to send their ships into areas where there is intense fighting, especially aerial bombardment. The program is requesting safe passage after a ship carrying more than 1,000 metric tons of wheat was turned away at the eastern port of Benghazi. Los Angeles Times/Babylon & Beyond blog (3/3)       - UN works to quell Sudan's Abyei battle
United Nations officials have ordered additional peacekeepers into Sudan's disputed Abyei border areas after renewed violence that left dozens dead. The UN plans to hold consultations with both north and south Sudan over hostilities in the resource-rich area, which both sides claim ownership over. AlertNet/Reuters (3/4) - Security Council expresses concern for Cote d'Ivoire
The United Nations Security Council warned Thursday that Cote d'Ivoire's bloody political crisis is increasing the chances of an outright civil war. Dozens of people have died this week in unrest, raising the death toll to at least 365 since President Laurent Gbagbo refused to recognize the results of November elections. CNN (3/4), Reuters (3/3) - India is central to polio-eradication success
India is undertaking massive efforts to prevent a resurgence of polio as the country has been the source of the gravest outbreaks in recent years despite being close to eradicating the disease. Authorities have deployed health workers to places like train stations to immunize the children of impoverished migrants on the move in search of better economic opportunities. Anti-polio campaigners see eradication of polio in India as key to global efforts to wipe out the disease. The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (3/3) - Polio is proving tougher than smallpox to wipe out
Polio is more difficult to eradicate than smallpox because the fragile vaccine is less powerful, its victims show few visible effects, and the virus is active in populous regions. Still, the 20-year effort to eradicate the virus has confined it to four areas of the world -- northern Nigeria, northern India, southern Afghanistan and the Pakistani border regions. The Wall Street Journal/Health Blog (3/3) - Energy companies seek robust carbon targets
Energy companies from the U.K., Denmark, Norway, Italy and the Netherlands have publicly called for the European Union to set carbon-emission reduction targets of 25% of 1990 levels over the next 10 years as part of the battle against climate change. The companies endorsed the call as a way to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and bolster economic recovery efforts. AlertNet/Reuters (3/3) - French ban on full-face veils to go into force
Beginning April 11 any woman in France who wears a veil that covers her face in public will be breaking the law. Such a veil may be worn at home, while worshiping or while a passenger in a private car, but a woman wearing a niqab in public could be fined 150 euros and ordered to take a class on secular and gender values. A man who forces his wife or family member to wear one could face a 30,000 euro fine and a year in prison. The Guardian (London) (3/3) - Yemen reportedly fires rockets at protesters
At least two people were killed, and seven wounded, when the military in north Yemen reportedly fired rockets against protesters calling for an end to the 32-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Shiite Muslim rebels said the rockets were fired from a military base. BBC (3/4), Reuters (3/4) - Western powers consider Libya action
 Calls for Western military intervention in Libya -- beginning with the imposition of a no-fly zone -- are growing as a bloody crackdown on anti-government supporters continues. Supporters of interventionist policies took a hit after the U.S.-led invasions into Afghanistan and Iraq, and opponents worry any action in Libya would drag Western powers in another long-term quagmire. Reuters (3/4)
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