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"SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" |
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20 Dec 2005 06:19:05 AM |
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the loving, caring god, busy as usual - 168 |
thousands of people need food, hey, where was that idiot in the bible with a
couple of fish and a couple of loads of bread? LMAO.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/12/19/un.africa.ap/index.html
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Warning that the lives of millions of Africans are at
stake, the U.N. humanitarian chief urged stepped-up international efforts
Monday to tackle worsening conflicts in Sudan and Uganda and severe food
shortages in Zimbabwe and southern Africa.
Jan Egeland appealed for an expanded security force to stop rapes, killings,
burning and looting in Sudan's Darfur region which is spilling across the
border to Chad. He called for international efforts to stop the Lord's
Resistance Army from wreaking havoc in Uganda and southern Sudan, and he
said Zimbabwe's government must stop further evictions and allow aid to its
people.
"More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than
on any other continent," Egeland said in a briefing to the U.N. Security
Council. "As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are
lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and
senseless brutality."
The U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said the
international community must demonstrate its "humanity" by providing money
for "a much more ambitious development and humanitarian agenda." He
expressed hope that new African Union initiatives and additional resources
pledged by the powerful Group of Eight major industrialized nations would
result in major changes.
Egeland stressed that too many of the humanitarian crises in Africa result
from "a total absence of peace and security."
"Humanitarian aid cannot be an alibi for unwillingness to address the root
causes of conflict," he said. "The greatest contribution we can make to
addressing humanitarian crises in Africa is determined, energetic and
sustained efforts to bring an end to conflict and injustice that cause so
much suffering in Africa."
Egeland warned that the largest humanitarian operation in the world, in
Darfur, remains "under constant threat, and our operations can now be
disrupted completely any day and anywhere in Darfur" because of continuing
violence.
The Security Council must face "the terrible reality" that the killings,
rapes, burning, looting and forced displacement of people have not stopped,
that attacks are spilling into Chad, and that for the last three months "the
situation has been deteriorating," he said.
The conflict began in February 2003 when two African rebel groups took up
arms against the Sudanese government amid accusations of repression and
unfair distribution of wealth. The United Nations estimates that 180,000
people have died, mainly through famine and disease, and several million
more have either fled to Chad or been displaced inside Sudan.
While some 13,000 international and national relief workers have been
providing relief to more than 3 million people in Darfur and Chad, Egeland
said they have had less access in the past three months than at any time
since April 2004.
"Our massive humanitarian operation will not be sustainable unless we
finally see commensurate efforts in the political and security areas," he
warned.
Egeland called for "an expanded and more effective security presence on the
ground as soon as possible" to protect civilians, and he stressed that this
beefed-up presence is needed regardless of the outcome of talks in Abuja,
Nigeria on a political settlement of the Darfur conflict.
"It cannot be right that we have twice as many humanitarian workers in
Darfur as international security personnel," he said.
The African Union has 7,000 troops in Darfur and its continued presence is
being assessed.
LRA threatens region
On a second crisis, Egeland said that while the number of combatants from
the Lord's Resistance Army may not have increased, "they have spread out
over a larger area and now constitute a significant threat to regional
security, with appalling consequences for several million people."
The LRA is made up of the remnants of a northern rebellion that began after
Urgandan President Yoweri Museveni, a southerner, took power in 1986. They
operate from bases in southern Sudan, which had backed the rebels but is now
reconciled with Uganda. In September, some rebels fled to eastern Congo
following pressure from Ugandan troops.
Egeland said rebel attacks have curtailed access to 1.7 million people in
camps in northern Uganda and thousands more in southern Sudan, putting many
lives at risk, and he denounced a new rebel tactic of targeting humanitarian
workers.
The U.N. humanitarian chief said the governments of Uganda, Congo and Sudan
"bear the primary responsibility to protect and assist their populations, as
well as to pursue the LRA."
He urged the three governments to acknowledge how dangerous the situation is
and called on the Security Council to strongly condemn the LRA attacks,
demand an immediate halt to the violence, and consider appointing a panel of
experts to explore the sources of funding and support for the rebels.
Bad times ahead for Zimbabwe, Mali
As for the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe and southern Africa, Egeland said
more than 10 million people in the region need food and the situation could
deteriorate next year, particularly in Zimbabwe and Malawi.
In Zimbabwe, he said, "the humanitarian situation has worsened significantly
in 2005," exacerbated by the government's massive forced eviction of slum
dwellers.
"The government must stop further evictions and be more flexible in allowing
shelter and other programs for those affected," Egeland said. "It must
ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need."
He urged African governments to engage Zimbabwe, which not only needs food
but investments to improve agriculture, job opportunities and basic
services.
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