We have to break the cycle of displacement. Africa remains the global leader in this cycle. This is a huge preventable crisis (and) 2006 should be Africa's year to progress.
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They can't return people into a conflict area.Dennis McNamara
The continent is swimming in arms. The kids on the streets of Nairobi and Khartoum and Abidjan and Monrovia have guns in their pockets or up their sleeves.
Dennis McNamara
We are not promoting, we are not organising the return of IDPs, but we are trying to monitor and make sure that minimum protection and humanitarian assistance is available for those who need it.
Dennis McNamara
They internally displaced people live in unacceptable conditions, are not getting adequate basic services and are unprotected.
Dennis McNamara
We don't want to be unduly intimidated by the thugs, the extremists who are presumably behind this, but we have to balance that with the security of the people.
Dennis McNamara
The problem is that those who are the worst off are the first to move. You would need the strong to go back first, but instead it is the women, children and disabled who are going back,
Dennis McNamara
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