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The Northern Uganda crisis affects regional security – Interview with Dennis McNamara

10/07/2007

Director of the Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division You have just come back from Uganda. What really is the problem there? The problem is that Uganda has a huge population of nearly 2 million internally displaced persons, the result of twenty years of war with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is a fanatical fundamentalist movement with no political agenda except to terrorize the population. For instance, 25,000 children have been abducted. The problem is huge: 2 million people…

Interview with Sir John Holmes, Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

10/07/2007

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When you meet a British “Sir”, you expect an elderly, grey-haired, avuncular gentleman and not a nice, young, friendly person like Sir John. His colleagues in the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have, by the way, put the “Sir” aside, so Sir John is now just John… Before taking up his new position at the United Nations, Sir John was a career British diplomat who had had postings in Russia, the UN Mission in New York…