“Any sex with under-18s is against the UN rule and this is just something that needs to be punished.”Yet, for all Mr Guehenno’s strong words and insistence on firm action, the signs are that the OIOS report barely scratches the surface of the levels of abuse within the DRC. The UN has a problem of accountability and of abuse; of an organisation sent to police the world which remains unable to police itself, and of a climate of systematic abuse which ranges from alleged high-level fumblings to the rape of girls and boys, some of them as young as six, by members of the DRC peacekeeping force, known as Monuc, its French acronym, and civilian UN officials. The additional sum will come from the Treasury reserve and not from existing projects, he said.However, Oxfam attacked the Government last night, saying £50m had been taken from the reserves of the Department for International Development. Phil Bloomer, Oxfam’s head of advocacy said: “The tsunami has emptied DfID’s reserves completely. Though the new money announced today is welcome, we are extremely concerned that DfID’s emergency reserves remain depleted.”Speaking for the first time to MPs on the disaster, Mr Blair said: “Scarcely any of us here will not know someone whose life has been touched by this event.

None of us will not have been moved to tears as each night we saw with mounting horror the human tragedy that followed the natural disaster.”British diplomats have been criticised but Mr Blair defended Foreign Office staff. “There will inevitably be mistakes made or unintended insensitivity in certain cases. But I am clear these staff have done a quite magnificent and exceptional job,” he said.Michael Howard, the Tory leader, in a sideswipe at Mr Blair, said the British people had shown a lead in answering the relief appeal, but that people who put money in collection boxes could not claim gift-aid to increase their contributions.. But we have paid a high price for this.”As the teacher explained to the girls of the English class, that they could go home in the afternoon, they expressed fears of further waves and a storm said to be brewing off the coast.

These are a people still living on frayed nerves, frightened about what is to come. But Mrs Pinidiya, was preparing to go back on local radio again last night to try to get more of her children back “The schools can lead the way in lifting this country. It is very difficult, but we can help the ones who have lost loved ones and homes By coming back, we can all move forward.”. Yesterday, it rained hard on Indonesia’s 391,000 internally displaced people, as it has done every day this week. It poured down with pitiless, tropical force and persistence. Toilets and water purification systems have arrived, but only in the past few days.