Africa's crises `fail to be addressed'

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The UN emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, said on Tuesday that relief crises in Africa were outpacing efforts to contain them and that the international community was failing to focus on the world's most pressing needs.

"The world's biggest drama is not found in Europe or the Middle East or North America -- the world's biggest challenges and dramas are found in Africa," Egeland said in an interview before delivering a closed-door briefing on the subject to the Security Council.

Saying it was essential that people decide that "human life is worth as much in northern Uganda as it is in northern Iraq, or in the Congo as in Kosovo," he declared, "The way it is now in Africa cannot continue because at the moment we are getting more new crises faster than we are solving old crises."

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