Our immediate contribution of 3 million pounds will help deliver food to those most in need. But on its own, this emergency response will not help people to escape from poverty and hunger.
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The cut of 15m will be reallocated to help the UN provide humanitarian relief, including food and health care, for people who have had to leave their homes as a result of the conflict in northern Uganda.Hilary Benn
The situation for many people forced from their homes by the conflict in northern Uganda is desperate. That's why I am reallocating GBP15 million to help the U.N. provide food and access to health care to those affected.
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We now need to turn commitments into resources that Africa can rely on.
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It is a very, very important deal. But there are other countries represented on the World Bank board in particular and they need to support it too.
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Internationally, it is true the response hasn't frankly been good enough, and I don't understand it because nobody can be in any doubt whatsoever about the scale of the crisis,
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