President Yoweri Museveni hit out on Saturday at the United Nations' top humanitarian official for suggesting the suffering caused by war in northern Uganda was at least as bad as that in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur. U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland urged the international community on Thursday to focus on northern Uganda, where some 1.6 million people have fled their homes to escape brutal rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). "That gentleman is always writing false reports about Uganda," Museveni told a crowd of several thousand gathered to celebrate the east African country's 42nd independence day. "In what way is it like Darfur? True, people are in camps because of attacks by the terrorists. But it seems some people don't want us to defeat the terrorists. I wonder at the motives of these people who go around claiming to care about Africa, but actually have other interests."
