"The JMC has listed partners in this cause to include countries like the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa , the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and multilaterals like the World Bank, the United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator, the European Union and some civil society organisations"
All Imperialist and Neo-Colonialist forces... I reckon. Some of the very powers which coludded with the Bloody Museveni Regime to oppress and subjugate our people.
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding! Only time will tell if this hoodwinking tactics adarpted by the Regime and his Western supporters against our people, will succeed.!
Matek
Uganda: Govt Rolls Out Rescue Plan for War-Torn North
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The East African (Nairobi)
May 9, 2006
Posted to the web May 9, 2006
Posted to the web May 9, 2006
David Malingha Doya, Special Correspondent
Nairobi
Nairobi
President Yoweri Museveni last week launched a Joint Monitoring Committee to manage an
emergency plan for humanitarian interventions in northern Uganda.
The committee, to run under the Prime Minister's Office, will co-ordinate all government and non-government humanitarian interventions in northern Uganda, where a 20-year rebel insurgency has killed thousands and left an estimated 1.6 million people displaced from their homes.
The creation of the JMC follows an inter-ministerial meeting held in Geneva in March to discuss the humanitarian situation in northern Uganda, where it was resolved that the government form an inclusive all-stakeholder monitoring mechanism to co-ordinate emergency humanitarian interventions there.
President Museveni assured the region's internally displaced persons (IDPs), some of whom have started returning to their homes in Lango and Teso sub regions, of their safety. He blamed the failure to end the war against the Joseph Kony-led Lord's
Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group on external interference.
He said, "People who say that the government has been fighting Kony for the past 20 years are wrong; we spent a lot of time fighting rebel proxies, which are Sudan and the late Mobutu's Zaire government. We had to discipline the proxies first."
He also ruled out peace talks with Kony and said it is now up to the governments of Sudan, DR Congo and the United Nations Mission to Congo (Monuc) to capture the rebel leader and his co-accused, who have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and hand them over to The Hague for trial.
The JMC will be hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Prof Apolo Nsibambi, with seven subcommittees manned by the Ministries of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees; Defence; Finance, Planning and Economic
Development; Foreign Affairs; Internal Affairs; Local Government and Northern Uganda Rehabilitation.
The Emergency Action Plan for Humanitarian Intervention includes activities directly undertaken by government, NGOs and international agencies. It focuses on ending hostilities, enhancing protection of civilians, increasing humanitarian assistance to IDPs, peacebuilding and reconciliation.
The JMC has listed partners in this cause to include countries like the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa , the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and multilaterals like the World Bank, the United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator, the European Union and some civil society organisations.
Members of Parliament from the war-affected areas had earlier asked the government to do more to help the people displaced or affected by the rebellion.
Grace Akello, State Minister
for Northern Uganda Rehabilitation said, "The PRDP is aimed at consolidating state authority in the North, rebuilding and empowering communities, revitalising the economy and building peace and promoting reconciliation between the North and the rest of the country."
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Consolidating state authority will be a major responsibility of the Defence and Internal Affairs Ministries, which will deploy armed forces and police to stop armed hostilities and also strengthen clean-up operations including demining.
"Rebuilding and empowering communities addresses the critical areas of improving conditions and quality of life of displaced persons with specific interventions taking care of food and shelter for IDPs," Ms Akello said.
PRDP will also supplement efforts by the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund in the areas of health, education and water
provision, with the primary focus on the often marginalised groups like persons with disabilities, the elderly, orphans, widows and persons infected and affected by HIV/Aids.
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