Katie Nguyen
Katie Nguyen is an AlertNet correspondent based in London. She previously spent five years in Kenya covering east Africa for Reuters, including assignments to Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tanzania. She joined Reuters as a graduate trainee in 1999.
WFP sees no let-up in volatile food supply and prices
LONDON (AlertNet) - The cost of food is rising and prices will likely remain volatile at a time when the number of hungry people globally has topped one billion, the head of the United Nations' World Food Programme said on Wednesday. "Risk is the new normal when it comes to food," Josette Sheeran told a news conference. "We believe that the volatility in price and supply is with us for the predictable future." ...
Give the private sector a chance, UN aid chief says
LONDON (AlertNet) - The humanitarian community cannot afford to pass on the expertise and innovation offered by the private sector and should scale up its partnership with private players, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said on Thursday. "I would say the non-profit sector does not have the exclusive right to deliver humanitarian assistance," Holmes said. ...
Camps deflect attention from the truth of displacement
LONDON (AlertNet) - When it comes to depicting people uprooted within their own borders what could be more stereotypical than an image of a camp? Yet most internally displaced people (IDPs) are not living in camps where food distributions, health services, water supplies and schools are pretty much guaranteed. ...
What the United Nations is saying about Africa's landmark treaty on internally displaced
KAMPALA (AlertNet) - The African Union is due to adopt a convention to protect and assist millions of people on the continent, who have been uprooted within their own countries by violence and natural disasters. Here are some key quotes from senior U.N. officials about the significance of the pact. ...
Few heads of state to witness Africa's historic moment on IDP rights
Its been touted as timely and groundbreaking, a major achievement and the first of its kind so why have so few African heads of states turned up at a special summit to adopt a convention to protect millions of the continents internally displaced? Years of negotiations spearheaded by the 53-member African Union have culminated in the treaty to give rights to some 11.8 million IDPs, almost half the worlds displaced population. ...
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