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John Holmes and Clare Short

Stephen Sackur speaks to John Holmes, the head of UN humanitarian operations, and Clare Short, former UK Secretary of State for International Development.

A decade of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has so far claimed five million lives, and now civilians in the east of Congo are again fleeing gunmen. Stephen Sackur speaks to John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Clare Short, a former British minister for international development, and asks what it will take to prevent another catastrophe.

30 minutes

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Fri 7 Nov 2008 04:30GMT

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