As UK Takes Over UN Presidency, Calls for Northern Uganda Resolution
On the eve of the British taking over the presidency of the United Nations, eight leading humanitarian agencies accused the UK government of neglecting Africa's longest-running war in northern Uganda.
"The war in northern Uganda has uprooted as many people as the Bosnian wars and killed more people than the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone put together, yet in two decades the UN Security Council has never formally addressed it. As the UK takes over the Security Council presidency, this brutal war must be at the top of Blair's priorities," said Neill Garvie, Christian Aid's emergency manager for Uganda. Read more at ChristianAid's website.
The Vatican also recently issued a statement on the crisis, saying that the nature of the war brings ever closer "the threat of a real genocide of the Teso, Kuman, Acholi and Lango ethnic groups," calling for urgent international action.
"The war in northern Uganda has uprooted as many people as the Bosnian wars and killed more people than the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone put together, yet in two decades the UN Security Council has never formally addressed it. As the UK takes over the Security Council presidency, this brutal war must be at the top of Blair's priorities," said Neill Garvie, Christian Aid's emergency manager for Uganda. Read more at ChristianAid's website.
The Vatican also recently issued a statement on the crisis, saying that the nature of the war brings ever closer "the threat of a real genocide of the Teso, Kuman, Acholi and Lango ethnic groups," calling for urgent international action.