Uganda: U.N. "appallingly negligent" of Uganda war

Distracted by Iraq and the Asian tsunami, the United Nations is ignoring a flare-up in Uganda's 18-year-old civil conflict, an aid group said last Thursday. "The United Nations Security Council has been appallingly negligent of the conflict in Uganda, failing to pass a single resolution," said Emma Naylor, head of Oxfam in Uganda. The British-based group said the Security Council should have used a meeting on African humanitarian issues in New York last Thursday to focus on one of Africa's longest-running wars.