UN highlights 'forgotten humanitarian crisis'

THE UN humanitarian chief travelled to northern Uganda over the weekend to highlight what he called a forgotten humanitarian crisis, with about two million people made homeless and tens of thousands of children abducted in the region's 20-year insurgency.

Jan Egeland visited Patongo camp in Pader, one of the districts worst hit by the insurgency.

"It is the biggest story not told yet - 20,000-25,000 kidnapped children. There is nowhere else with a drama like this one," Mr Egeland said as he visited the camp, about 380km north of the capital, Kampala.