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

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...

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

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...

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