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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Rich nations are discriminating against Africa on desperately needed aid for humanitarian crises, resulting in meager food rations for thousands of people, no food for others and many deaths, the U.N. humanitarian chief said.
Jan Egeland told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that donors are more generous if humanitarian crises happen in Europe or the Middle East than in Africa, where all the major humanitarian challenges are located and the need is the greatest.
"There is an inbuilt discrimination in the sense that ... if we all agree that a human life has the same value wherever he or she is born, there should be the same attention to northern Uganda as to northern Iraq, the same attention to the Congo as there was to Kosovo," he said.
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