Published on Pambazuka News (https://www.pambazuka.org)

Home > Uganda: UN emergency chief meets Uganda’s President; displaced people key issue

Contributor [1]
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
249 [3]
Article-Summary: 

United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland has met with Uganda’s President and other top officials in wide-ranging talks that covered the need to improve the conditions in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) uprooted in the 20-year rebellion by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Mr. Egeland also discussed with President Yoweri Museveni the need to do more to protect civilians, and also the idea of a Special Envoy for Northern Uganda.

Category: 
Governance [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/33221 [5]
Country: 
Uganda [6]

Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/32937

Links
[1] https://www.pambazuka.org/author/contributor
[2] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3296
[3] https://www.pambazuka.org/article-issue/249
[4] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3274
[5] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/33221
[6] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3276