UGANDA: U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES TONY HALL VISITS WAR-RAVAGED NORTHERN TOWN OF GULU

Record ID: 337963

  • Title: UGANDA: U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES TONY HALL VISITS WAR-RAVAGED NORTHERN TOWN OF GULU
  • Date: 22nd March 2005
  • Summary: (BN09) GULU, UGANDA (MARCH 22, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. AERIAL OF GULU TOWN 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF TONY HALL, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO UN AGENCIES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ARRIVING AT GULU AIRPORT; SHAKING HANDS WITH OFFICIALS (3 SHOTS) 0.15 3. EXTERIOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME STORES IN GULU 0.20 4. VARIOUS OF FOOD SUPPLIES IN THE STORE 0.30 5. SCU: YOUNG CHILD CHEWING SUGARCANE 0.34 6. VARIOUS OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE (IDP) WAITING FOR FOOD SUPPLY (4 SHOTS) 0.49 7. VARIOUS OF MALNOURISHED CHILDREN IN GULU HOSPITAL 0.56 8. SCU/SV: MOTHER AND YOUNG BABY IN THE HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 1.01 9. PAN DO9WN: ENTRANCE TO ORTHOPAEDIC WORKSHOP IN GULU 1.04 10. AMBASSADOR TONY HALL AT WORKSHOP IN GULU 1.09 11. WAR VICTIMS (AMPUTEE'S) BEING TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 1.19 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TONY HALL, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO UN AGENCIES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, SAYING: "We work through the world food programme and FAO and IFAD quite a bit, we gave them quite a bit of money. As a matter of fact 50% of the food that comes into this country (Uganda) comes from the United States, and I am here to announce a new amount of money and amount of food especially, about 41,000 metric tonnes that's about twenty seven million (U.S.) dollars for mostly the northern area that will serve about 2.4 million recipients up here." 1.51 13. SV: UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO UGANDA JIMMY KOLKER AND TONY HALL AT THE WORKSHOP 1.55 14. FOREIGN OFFICIALS 1.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: GULU, NOTHERN UGANDA
  • Country: Uganda
  • Reuters ID: LVA2KP7KGV73V3W9Q3JOES7H5P92
  • Story Text: Tony Hall, U.S. Ambassador to UN agencies, visits
    Uganda's war ravaged north.


    Tony Hall, three times Nobel Peace Price nominee
    and also United States Ambassador to the United Nations
    agencies in Rome, recently went to Northern Uganda to see
    for himself the damage caused to the local people by the
    fighting between the government and the rebels.

    He wanted to assess the humanitarian situation there
    and turn a media spotlight on the plight of the north.

    As the peace talks have failed, fighting has resumed.

    The rebels are attacking troops and civilians, and
    abducting youngsters again.

    The rainy season has begun now, meaning some roads have
    become impassable and vegetation has grown, making it
    easier for the rebels to hide.

    Tony Hall decided to visit Noah's Ark at night, a
    centre where some of the thousands of children who seek
    safety in towns every night come to sleep.

    Though based in Rome, the ambassador makes frequent
    trips to the field to assess emergency feeding and
    development programs, view the work of the UN and
    non-governmental organizations and gain insight into how
    the international community can better cooperate on some of
    the most serious humanitarian crises.

    "We work through the world food programme and FAO and
    IFAD quite a bit, we gave them quite a bit of money. As a
    matter of fact 50% of the food that comes into this country
    (Uganda) comes from the United States, and I am here to
    announce a new amount of money and amount of food
    especially, about 41,000 metric tonnes that's about 27
    million (U.S.) dollars for mostly the northern area that
    will serve about 2.4 million recipients up here," Tony Hall
    told Reuters on Saturday (March 22).

    The war in Uganda's 18-year struggle with the Lord's
    Resistance Army (LRA) has waxed and waned over the years.

    Yet the tragedy is no less desperate.

    UN Under-secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland
    has called Northern Uganda the world's largest neglected
    humanitarian emergency.

    In the past, the Sudanese government allowed the LRA to
    roam freely in Southern Sudan because it claimed Uganda's
    President Museveni was supporting the rebel group SPLA in
    Sudan. With a peace deal brokered in Sudan, the government
    has allowed the Ugandan army to conduct raids on LRA camps
    in Southern Sudan.

    The Lord's Resistance Army, a quasi-religious rebel
    group that has reportedly kidnapped 20,000 children to
    become soldiers, porters and sex slaves, has seen the
    surrender of several high-level LRA officers who in turn
    are being offered amnesty by the Ugandan government.
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