Àfrica no importa gens

Shashi Tharoor: Meanwhile: The critical news stories you never read
International Herald Tribune, 14/07/2004.

While in Addis Ababa last week for the African Union summit meeting, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had dozens of conversations and meetings with the region’s leaders. He observed a strange thing: “Iraq didn’t come up, terrorism didn’t come up, weapons of mass destruction didn’t come up.” There were subjects on people’s minds other than the ones dominating the media’s attention.

Carol Bellamy: The children have to hide by night

I have seen many disturbing things during my time with Unicef. But few are as shocking as the sight of the “night commuters” in northern Uganda. They are the 44,000 rural children who, fearing abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army, leave their villages every day to seek refuge in town before nightfall.

Evelyn Gordon: Pas de temps pour l’Afrique
The Jerusalem Post, 19/07/2004.

L'ONU est tout aussi coupable de donner l'impression que toutes les crises internationales sont moins importantes que le conflit israélo-palestinien. (...) si les éditorialistes et les responsables onusiens sont vraiment attristés par l'indifférence mondiale envers les crises du Soudan ou de l'Ouganda, ils ne peuvent s'en prendre qu'à eux-mêmes. Eux seuls peuvent modifier l'ordre de leurs priorités et par-là même celui du monde entier.