Katie Nguyen
Katie Nguyen is an AlertNet correspondent based in London. She previously spent five years in Kenya covering east Africa for Reuters, including assignments to Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tanzania. She joined Reuters as a graduate trainee in 1999.
Camps deflect attention from the truth of displacement
LONDON (AlertNet) - When it comes to depicting people uprooted within their own borders what could be more stereotypical than an image of a camp? Yet most internally displaced people (IDPs) are not living in camps where food distributions, health services, water supplies and schools are pretty much guaranteed. ...
What the United Nations is saying about Africa's landmark treaty on internally displaced
KAMPALA (AlertNet) - The African Union is due to adopt a convention to protect and assist millions of people on the continent, who have been uprooted within their own countries by violence and natural disasters. Here are some key quotes from senior U.N. officials about the significance of the pact. ...
Few heads of state to witness Africa's historic moment on IDP rights
Its been touted as timely and groundbreaking, a major achievement and the first of its kind so why have so few African heads of states turned up at a special summit to adopt a convention to protect millions of the continents internally displaced? Years of negotiations spearheaded by the 53-member African Union have culminated in the treaty to give rights to some 11.8 million IDPs, almost half the worlds displaced population. ...
INTERVIEW-Challenge seen in ensuring Africa respects pact on displaced-ICRC
By Katie Nguyen and Frank Nyakairu KAMPALA (AlertNet) - The African Union (AU) has produced a major achievement in drawing up a pact providing rights to millions of the continent's internally displaced people, but ensuring that all parties respect the landmark convention will be a big challenge, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Africa hosts some 12 million internally displaced people (IDPs) -- almost half of the world's IDP population - who have been uprooted because of conflict and natural disasters. ...
How Hollywood drove comedy writer Jane Bussmann to a war zone
LONDON (AlertNet) - Rebel fighters, kidnapped children, mutilation -- war zones are no joke, so when comedy writer Jane Bussmann embarked on an account of conflict-torn northern Uganda she had one rule: all the laughs would be at her expense. The Worst Date Ever: War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-throbs and Other Abominations starts off in Tinseltown where Bussmann is getting more and more jaded with having to ask celebrities what they wear and making up quotes for magazine articles for a living. ...
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