'20,000 Uganda children abducted'

Jan Egeland, head of the U.N. humanitarian affairs says, "Northern Uganda to me remains the biggest neglected humanitarian emergency in the world." Twenty years of fighting in southern Sudan has affected northern Uganda. To find new "recruits", the Lord's Resistance Army has abducted nearly twenty thousand children and forced them to fight in their rebel movement. Egeland believes international attention and peace efforts in southern Sudan can stop this moral outrage in Uganda. Meanwhile, the Sudanese government and the southern rebels are meeting with each other again in Nigeria. The meetings appear to be making progress towards peace.
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