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October 27, 2004
Forgotten crisis or global cover-up?
Reuters
Political interests at home and abroad are helping to keep northern Uganda’s 18-year conflict out of the global spotlight despite the fact that more people have been displaced there than in Sudan’s Darfur region, NGOs say.

Some aid agencies argue that Uganda’s special relationship with donors -- which provide 50 percent of the country’s annual budget -- and the country’s reputation as a development success story sometimes distract from what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Almost two million people have been displaced in northern Uganda, compared with just over a million in Darfur, yet the crisis rarely makes international headlines or sparks outcry from world leaders.

Posted by Robert Mayer at October 27, 2004 04:29 PM | TrackBack
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