By Gloria Laker Aciro
GULU- Following the 20-year war between the Lords Resistance Army and the government of Uganda, thousands of people have either been killed or injured by explosives like land mines, hand grenades and mortars. In Gulu, women collecting firewood and people farming in gardens have ended up being hurt by the land mines [...]
Entries from November 2008
Land mine survivors face discrimination
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Going Back · News from Northern Uganda
Four reasons why PRDP will fail
November 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
by Omara Elem
The PRDP is a post-conflict recovery plan designed to eradicate poverty in Northern Uganda after more than 20 years of conflict and population displacement. It started in 2007 and should be implemented in 2010. In this analysis James Omara gives four reasons why PRDP is doomed to fail.
Conflict mapping
The PRDP strategy is to [...]
Tags: Background · PRDP · Peace Talks
Museveni: ‘Kony is a mad man’
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments
By Omara James
LIRA – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the UPDF are on high alert with full capacity to crash the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels if they attempt to return to Uganda with a motive of disrupting and terrorizing Northern Uganda again.