Since the 2006 signing of a cease-fire agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army there has been significant return of those displaced by conflict in northern Uganda...
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Need to focus on returnees and remaining IDPs in transition to development
Since the 2006 signing of a cease-fire agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army there has been significant return of those displaced by conflict in northern Uganda...
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IDP News Alert, 19 April 2012
To see this news alert with links to the sources click here Uganda: Returning IDPs face further challenges over homeland Widespread land disputes in northern Uganda are threatening the region’s...
Unprepared for peace: Education in northern Uganda in displacement and beyond - Case study on education and internal displacement
All children have a right to education, including displaced children affected by conflict. Education during and after displacement is a vital component of successful recovery, because it gives people...
Uganda: Difficulties continue for returnees and remaining IDPs as development phase begins
In the four years passed since the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, return has taken place in northern Uganda at a...
Uganda: Returns outpace recovery planning
Since the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army in 2006, about two thirds of the 1.8 million IDPs who lived in camps at the...
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Uganda: Focus shifts to securing durable solutions for IDPs
Significant improvements in the security situation in northern Uganda have allowed about half of the more than 1.8 million people who had been internally displaced by the conflict to return to their...
NGOs unite in call for patience & persistence to salvage northern Uganda's peace process
Washington D.C., 7 May 2008 - As Ugandan civil society leaders meet to clarify transitional justice mechanisms in advance of their scheduled May 10th meeting with Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph...
Uganda: Uncertain future for IDPs while peace remains alive
With the peace process plagued by delays and confusion, and with conditions in return areas often worse than in the IDP camps, the future for IDPs in northern Uganda remains uncertain. In August 2006...
Uganda: Uncertain peace process impedes return in north while protection crisis looms in Karamoja region
An estimated 1.7 million people remain internally displaced in northern Uganda as a result of the conflict between the government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The conflict in the north has...
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Uganda: IDP return hopes dented as rebels reject mediator
Prospects for the voluntary return of an estimated 1.7 million people displaced by the 21-year conflict in northern Uganda remained bleak as peace talks between government and rebels faltered. The...
Uganda: Only peace can restore the confidence of the displaced
Update on the Implementation of the Recommendations made by the UN Secretary-General's Representative on Internally Displaced Persons following his visit to Uganda Preface for the 2nd Edition,...
Uganda: Only peace can restore the confidence of the displaced - second edition, Oct 2006
Update on the implementation of the recommendations made by the UN Secretary-General's representative on internally displaced persons following his visit to Uganda Preface for the 2nd Edition,...
Uganda: Ceasefire leads to improved humanitarian access to IDP camps
The government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) agreed on 26 August to cease all military actions against each other in a 20-year conflict that has resulted in the displacement of...
Renewed international and national impetus to address humanitarian situation yields only mild improvements for 2 million displaced
Overview Between 1.7 and two million people remain internally displaced in northern Uganda as a result of the conflict between the government and the Lordís Resistance Army (LRA), as continued...
Uganda: Only peace can restore the confidence of the displaced
Update on the implementation of the recommendations made by the UN Secretary-General's representative on internally displaced persons following his visit to Uganda Executive Summary Background to the...
Uganda: Relief efforts hampered in one of the world's worst internal displacement crises
The situation endured by most of the nearly 2 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Uganda continues to worsen as rebel attacks have caused fresh human displacement. In early...
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Uganda: Profile of internal displacement
Summary Uganda: collapse of peace talks dims hopes for two million IDPs Prospects for an end to the massive displacement crisis and two decades of armed conflict between the government and rebels of...
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G8 plans to fight poverty must not overlook the plight of Africa's 13 million internally displaced people
GENEVA, 5 July 2005 - The Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council calls on G8 leaders not to overlook the plight of Africa's internally displaced people in their plans to fight poverty on...
Uganda: LRA rebels slaughter IDPs as they work in fields
Sixteen IDPs were killed and at least ten injured at the beginning of May by rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), near the Koch Goma camp some 25 kilometres from Gulu town in northern Uganda...