As war-torn Darfur is now considered to be the Largest Humanitarian Crisis in the world, there is an urgent call for Africa's leaders to show the same unity of purpose and partnership with the UN that brought peace to Burundi and Sierra Leone.

Is my noble friend aware that Syria now ranks as the Largest Humanitarian Crisis that we have had since the Second World War, with 2 million children now in desperate need as an unusually cruel winter sweeps across the Middle East?