Northern Uganda

• July 9th, 2008 No comments

For nearly 20 years, people in Northern Uganda have suffered from a brutal conflict, including attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and forced displacements by the government.
Today more than 1.6 million people - nearly 80 percent of the population in the north - have been uprooted and sent to camps that offer false security and hardly any assistance. While the death toll from direct violence continues to raise, many people die needlessly from preventable diseases like malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhoea.