Newsline 7 January 2010: Sudan on brink of renewed conflict; Lubanga’s child soldiers; and the EU discusses improved security measures

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Sudan teeters on brink of renewed conflict:

Five years since the signing of a peace accord to end the war in Sudan, aid organisations are warning that the country may be close to returning to conflict, just as 140 people are killed in ethnic clashes in the south.

Listen to Oxfam Novib’s Su Ying Lai

Child soldiers in the DRC:

The International Criminal Court in The Hague this week started to hear the defence of rebel militia leader Thomas Lubanga, who stands accused of recruiting child soldiers. Newsline hears from a former child soldier.

Helene Michaud reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo

EU meets to discuss body scanners in airports:

Airport security has been top of the agenda since the attempted bombing of a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day. Experts are meeting in Brussels today to decide whether the EU should introduce body scanners at all European airports.

Vanessa Mock reports