John Holmes

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MundoÁfrica

La formation d'un nouvel Etat devrait être un moment d'optimisme. Mais le Sud-Soudan émergera d'eaux profondément troubles lorsqu'il va formellement déclarer son indépendance le 9 juillet, divisant en deux le plus grand pays d'Afrique. Tandis que le gouvernement conduira les célébrations dans la nouvelle capitale, Djouba, la vie restera très difficile pour la plupart des citoyens et les événements autour des frontières du nouvel Etat sont déjà sources de grandes préoccupations.

J'ai visité le Soudan à maintes reprises en tant que secrétaire général adjoint des Nations unies aux affaires humanitaires. Le Darfour était et représente toujours la plus grande opération humanitaire au monde, le conflit meurtrier sur place demeurant non résolu.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAsia

As London witnesses Tamil protests, a bloodbath on the beaches of northern Sri Lanka seems an increasingly real possibility. The Sri Lankan military has pushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam into an area so small that any shooting or shelling inevitably causes casualties among the 150,000 to 190,000 civilians trapped in the same zone. There have been many hundreds of civilian deaths caused by firing from both sides, though exact numbers and who fired what and when are impossible to verify. It is clear that the LTTE is refusing to let people flee, though many are managing to escape somehow, and I fear the combatants may be gearing up for a final confrontation.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAsia,

Three months have passed since Cyclone Nargis and an accompanying tidal surge swept across Myanmar's fertile Irrawaddy Delta region, claiming nearly 140,000 lives and devastating the livelihoods of many more people. All told, some 2.4 million people were seriously affected by Nargis, ranking it among the worst cyclones in Asia in the past 15 years and the worst in Myanmar's history.

I recently completed my second trip to Myanmar, where I was again sobered by the immensity of the tragedy but was also cautiously hopeful about relief efforts. In May, government reluctance to allow international aid workers into the affected region sparked a storm of international criticism.…  Seguir leyendo »