Uganda world's 'greatest neglected emergency', says humanitarian chief

Northern Uganda is the world’s biggest neglected humanitarian crisis, with 20,000 kidnapped children, many of them forced to serve as combatants, says the head of UN humanitarian affairs.

Jan Egeland, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, said he asked the Security Council, rhetorically, where else in the world 80% of the fighters in a rebel movement were children and 90% of the population had been displaced from their homes.