Katie Nguyen
Katie Nguyen is an AlertNet correspondent based in London. She previously spent five years in Kenya covering east Africa for Reuters, including assignments to Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tanzania. She joined Reuters as a graduate trainee in 1999.
Q+A with "Worst Date Ever" author Jane Bussmann
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Rebel fighters, kidnapped children, mutilation -- war zones are no joke, so when comedy writer Jane Bussmann embarked on an account of conflict-torn northern Uganda she had one rule: all the laughs would be at her expense.
"The Worst Date Ever: War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-throbs and Other Abominations"starts off in Tinseltown where Bussmann is getting more and more jaded with having to ask celebrities what they wear and making up quotes for magazine articles for a living.
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Former Ugandan child soldier tells of 15 years trapped in rebel army
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Martin, who declined to give his real name, was 10 when he was kidnapped by northern Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in 1994. He escaped last month after 15 years in captivity and spoke to AlertNet about his experiences. Close to 2 million people were uprooted at the height of the conflict, one of Africa's longest-running, and tens of thousands were killed.
It was in the middle of the night when the Lord's Resistance Army knocked on my door and ordered me out of my home in Kitgum district. I was terrified because I had heard all about the atrocities they were committing.
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Author: Katie Nguyen
Martin, who declined to give his real name, was 10 when he was kidnapped by northern Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in 1994. He escaped last month after 15 years in captivity and spoke to AlertNet about his experiences. Close to 2 million people were uprooted at the height of the conflict, one of Africa's longest-running, and tens of thousands were killed.
It was in the middle of the night when the Lord's Resistance Army knocked on my door and ordered me out of my home in Kitgum district. I was terrified because I had heard all about the atrocities they were committing.
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Better warning system could have saved lives in Philippines - experts
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MANILA (AlertNet) - As the death toll in the Philippines from landslides and flooding triggered by two typhoons in two weeks topped 600, experts said better weather forecasting, a rigorous early warning system and careful urban planning would have saved more lives in one of the world's most disaster-prone countries.
As of late Sunday, local officials said more than 230 people, including rescuers trying to retrieve bodies, have died in northern provinces when Typhoon Parma brought torrential rain that turned roads into muddy rivers and submerged villages -- two weeks after another storm, Ketsana, unleashed a month's rain in a day on Manila, killing 337 people. There are fears the death toll could rise further.
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Author: Katie Nguyen
MANILA (AlertNet) - As the death toll in the Philippines from landslides and flooding triggered by two typhoons in two weeks topped 600, experts said better weather forecasting, a rigorous early warning system and careful urban planning would have saved more lives in one of the world's most disaster-prone countries.
As of late Sunday, local officials said more than 230 people, including rescuers trying to retrieve bodies, have died in northern provinces when Typhoon Parma brought torrential rain that turned roads into muddy rivers and submerged villages -- two weeks after another storm, Ketsana, unleashed a month's rain in a day on Manila, killing 337 people. There are fears the death toll could rise further.
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Typhoon survivor: giving up one child to save another
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Jenny Canela, 21, was evacuated to the Cupang Elementary School in Manila on Sept. 26 when devastating floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana inundated her home. She has been living in the evacuation centre with her husband and two-year-old son, where she spoke to AlertNet correspondent Katie Nguyen.
MANILA (AlertNet) - When I wake up all I can think about is how I will cope with my labour. I'm too scared of delivering in the evacuation centre - my doctor said I had a weak heart and erratic blood pressure -- so I've decided come what may to take the bus to the hospital tomorrow which is two hours away. I'm planning to put my baby up for adoption at an orphanage because we don't have enough money to look after the child.
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Jenny Canela, 21, was evacuated to the Cupang Elementary School in Manila on Sept. 26 when devastating floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana inundated her home. She has been living in the evacuation centre with her husband and two-year-old son, where she spoke to AlertNet correspondent Katie Nguyen.
MANILA (AlertNet) - When I wake up all I can think about is how I will cope with my labour. I'm too scared of delivering in the evacuation centre - my doctor said I had a weak heart and erratic blood pressure -- so I've decided come what may to take the bus to the hospital tomorrow which is two hours away. I'm planning to put my baby up for adoption at an orphanage because we don't have enough money to look after the child.
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Next time disaster strikes the Philippines, tweet for help
Author: Katie Nguyen
MANILA - When the worst flooding in 40 years hit the Philippines, cutting off power and shutting down mobile phone networks in many areas, tech-savvy locals turned to the Internet's social networking sites to get information flowing about friends, neighbours and strangers stuck in the rising waters.
In the critical hours that followed, residents of Greater Manila who had been overwhelmed by twice the amount of rain that fell during Hurricane Katrina in 2006 used sites such as Twitter and Facebook to mobilise help to rescue those stranded on rooftops and highways.
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Author: Katie Nguyen
MANILA - When the worst flooding in 40 years hit the Philippines, cutting off power and shutting down mobile phone networks in many areas, tech-savvy locals turned to the Internet's social networking sites to get information flowing about friends, neighbours and strangers stuck in the rising waters.
In the critical hours that followed, residents of Greater Manila who had been overwhelmed by twice the amount of rain that fell during Hurricane Katrina in 2006 used sites such as Twitter and Facebook to mobilise help to rescue those stranded on rooftops and highways.
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