Angola: UN Children's Envoy Launches Urgent Appeal to Avert 'Tragedy'

As the weeks have passed since Angola’s ceasefire was signed between Unita and the MPLA government on April 4, it has become clear that a grim situation lies behind Unita lines. As people stumble out of the bush into reception centers, they are telling of intense suffering, of people dying of hunger. Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict has been traveling in Angola during the past week, visiting the eastern and central provinces of Bie, Moxico and Benguela. He talked to allAfrica.com by telephone from the Angolan capital, Luanda, about what he’d encountered.