Africa: IDPs a neglected humanitarian issue, UN official says

The UN is looking into how best to resolve the problem of internally displaced persons (IDPs) worldwide, Dennis McNamara, the Special Adviser of the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator on Internal Displacement and Director of the Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said. More attention would be paid to eight countries with acute IDP problems. The countries are Burundi, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Nepal, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. He said the problem of displacement was also a challenge to peace-building and post-conflict recovery.