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01 Oct 2003

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
DRC-Uganda: Funding shortfalls hamper aid to Ituri refugees, says Red Cross

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— IRIN
NAIROBI, 1 October (IRIN) - Funding shortfalls in support of some 15,000 refugees from Ituri District of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) residing in Nebbi District of northwestern Uganda have impacted negatively on efforts to provide adequate aid, the International Federation of the Red Cross reported on Monday.
It said its local office was "not yet adequately equipped or trained to effectively fulfil its role as a strategic branch in relation to population movement resulting from the fragile political situation in DRC", and announced that it was launching
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01 Oct 2003

Uganda
Ugandans anxious for quick end to northern war

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Paul Busharizi
KAMPALA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Ugandans appear increasingly sceptical of government pledges to rout the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and quickly end a devastating 17-year war in the country's north.

Last year President Yoweri Museveni deployed more than 14,000 troops backed by helicopter gunships and tanks against the rebels. The LRA, he said, would be wiped out by the end of February this year.

But fighting continues. Rebels killed 20 people in eastern Uganda at the weekend, including 10 local pro-government

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30 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda: Feature - Eastern Teso region stands up to the LRA

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— IRIN
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SOROTI, 30 September (IRIN) - When rebels came to attack Roseland Ibuga's village, 10 km north of Soroti town, she was ready. Rosalind already knew they would attack - they had told her so themselves.

"I first met the rebels the night they came to attack Soroti town," she recalls. "They came to our village and told us to hide. They were kind to us then because they thought the Iteso would join them. But they said they would come back soon

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30 Sep 2003

Sudan + 1 other
Sudanese refugees start new life in wilderness

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— Agence France-Presse
by Vincent Mayanja

ARUA, Uganda, Sept 30 (AFP) - In the middle of a makeshift tent, thatched with twigs and plastic sheeting, three-year-old Jimmy Oyet watches as his mother prepares lunch of maize meal.

Stunted and dehydrated, his skin eaten by scabies, the child is a testimony to the life lived by thousands of Sudanese refugees who were forcibly relocated to two camps in this region by the host government.

Early this month, the Ugandan government decided to forcibly move more than 16,000 refugees from the congested transit

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30 Sep 2003

Uganda
Two killed as rebels ambush vehicle in Uganda

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— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Sept 30 (AFP) - Two travellers were killed and four critically injured in Uganda Tuesday when a passenger vehicle was ambushed by attackers suspected of being members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel movement, government officials said.
The vehicle was heading for the northeastern town of Soroti when the attack occurred, officials said.

The rebels have been fighting Museveni's government since 1988 ostensibly to replace it with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments, but their campaign has been marked by brutality against the civilian population.

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30 Sep 2003

Uganda + 1 other
Uganda reinforces troops on DR Congo border due to "imminent" threat

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— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Sept 30 (AFP) - Uganda said Tuesday that it has reinforced troops deployed on its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following "reliable intelligence" reports of an imminent attack by an armed group.
"We have reinforced the units at the border in the areas of Bundibugyo (400 kilometres west of Kampala) because a group under arms is based 30 miles (55 kilometres) inside (DR) Congo and their intentions are against Uganda," Ugandan army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza told AFP.

He refused to name the group that he

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30 Sep 2003

Burundi + 9 others
FEWS Greater Horn of Africa Food Security Update 30 Sep 2003

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— US Agency for International Development


Regional overview - short-term food security improving but drought and conflict intensify chronic vulnerability

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30 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda: Direct Relief's programme activities update Sep 2003

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— Direct Relief
Recipient: Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau
Shipment Number: 3566
Shipment Date: 9/29/2003
Value: $66,479
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that although efforts are being made to improve Uganda's poor economy, the country's healthcare system is weak and access to health services is very limited. The biggest health concern in Uganda is AIDS, which is the leading cause of death in the country and has reduced life expectancy to approximately 42 years. Other major health issues affecting Ugandans include malaria, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and typhoid.
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29 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda: UN urges more focus on plight of children in north

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— IRIN
NAIROBI, 29 September (IRIN) - The plight of children abducted by rebels in northern Uganda is not getting enough international attention, the UN has warned.
According to the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (OSRSG-CACC), more prominence should be given to the tragedy which has been unfolding for nearly two decades.

Over 25,000 children are believed to have been abducted in the course of the 17-year civil war between the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the government, but the rate of kidnappings

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29 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda: More than a million displaced people

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— IRIN
KAMPALA, 29 September (IRIN) - The number of Ugandans who have been displaced by the country's 17-year long civil war in the north has now exceeded one million, according to latest figures from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).
A comprehensive assessment released this week puts the figure of Uganda's internally displaced persons (IDPs) at 1,217,332 - based on recent surveys in the trouble-afflicted regions of Acholi (Gulu, Kitgum, Pader districts), Langi (Apac, Lira districts) and Teso (Katakwi, Soroti, Kumi and Kaberameido districts).

Before the incursions of the Lord's Resistance

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29 Sep 2003

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
DRC-Uganda: Ugandan army deploys near border

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— IRIN
NAIROBI, 29 September (IRIN) - The Ugandan army has deployed forces near the border of neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following reports that a Ugandan rebel group had regrouped in nearby Congolese villages, the Ugandan government-owned, newspaper, The New Vision reported on Monday.
Citing security sources, the Kampala newspaper said a splinter group of the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebel movement had reformed at its former bases in Kamango and Bunduguya of Ituri District, northeastern DRC. The daily reported that the second division
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29 Sep 2003

Uganda + 1 other
Uganda: Refugees from DR Congo Appeal No. 06/03 Interim Final Report

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— IFRC
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Appeal No. 06/2003; Interim Final Report
Appeal launched on 20 February 2003 for CHF 353,000 (USD 259,000 or EUR 240,000) for 3 months for 15,000 beneficiaries. Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF) allocated: CHF 50,000 (reimbursed) Period covered: June to August 2003

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 180 countries. For more information: www.ifrc.org

In Brief

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28 Sep 2003

Uganda
11 killed in rebel attack in northeastern Uganda

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— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Sept 28 (AFP) - At least 11 people were killed Saturday when suspected Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels attacked a government militia detachment in the northeast Ugandan district of Katakwi, officials said.
"Six members of the Arrow militia group and five civilians were killed when the thugs attacked our detachment at Olekai in Asamuk sub-county on Saturday," government official Musa Ecweru told AFP on Sunday.

Ecweru is area coordinator for the government-sponsored Arrow group, which has recruited local youth and former rebels to help in the fight against the LRA.

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28 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda: Over 400 Sudanese refugee minors separated from families

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— Pan African News Agency
Arua, Uganda (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is burdened with re-uniting 448 Sudanese refugee minors separated from their families during a hasty relocation by government from a congested settlement in Uganda's central region to West Nile region early this month.
Some 14,331 out of 16,000 displaced were relocated from the congested Kiryandongo settlement, 240 km north Kampala, during a three-week period, to West Nile districts of Arua and Yumbe.

After the exercise, it was discovered that 175 minors were separated from their families at Madi Okollo settlement,

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26 Sep 2003

Afghanistan + 33 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 39 of 2003

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— World Food Programme


This report includes:
A) Middle East and Central Asia: (1) Iraq, (2) Afghanistan, (3) Pakistan

B) East and Central Africa: (1) Burundi, (2) Democratic Republic of Congo, (3) Djibouti, (4) Eritrea, (5) Ethiopia, (6) Kenya, (7) Sudan, (8) Uganda (9) Tanzania

C) West Africa: (1) Liberia, (2) Guinea, (3) Sierra Leone, (4) Côte d'Ivoire, (5) Mauritania

D) Southern Africa: (1) Regional, (2) Angola, (3) Lesotho, (4) Madagascar, (5) Malawi, (6) Mozambique, (7) Namibia, (8) Swaziland, (9) Tanzania, (10) Zambia, (11) Zimbabwe

E) Asia: (1) DPRK

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25 Sep 2003

Bhutan + 6 others
JRS Dispatches No. 139

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— Jesuit Refugee Service
(Extracted from JRS Dispatches No. 139)
Twice monthly news bulletin from the Jesuit Refugee Service International Office

REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS

STATE OF CIVIL EMERGENCY LIFTED IN THE MOLUCCAS (INDONESIA)

The Indonesian Minister for Internal Affairs, Hari Subarno, has announced that the state of civil emergency in the Moluccas has been lifted, in what is seen as a vote of confidence in the province's peace process, reports JRS Moluccas. The Indonesian government's decision to lift the state of civil emergency came into effect on 15 September,

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25 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda: Concern over health of displaced people in east

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— IRIN
SOROTI, 25 September (IRIN) - The deteriorating health situation in areas occupied by eastern Uganda's internally displaced people (IDPs) has reached crisis proportions, with malaria, measles, diarrhoea and pneumonia killing a number of people every day, according to camp residents and local health officials.
Most of those dying from preventable diseases are young children. Parents in the camps are burying their young on a daily basis as attacks of malaria rage through the Teso region's densely packed settlements.

"The biggest problem here is coughing

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25 Sep 2003

Uganda
WFP warns of crisis as food runs out for more than one million displaced in Uganda

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— World Food Programme
NAIROBI - The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that in addition to 800,000 internally displaced people in the northern Acholi region, almost 300,000 have fled their homes in the Teso region in the east of the country following attacks by rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The total number of displaced people in Uganda is now over 1.1 million - all of whom are in dire need of food assistance.
Since June 2003, four districts in Teso region have been the target of brutal attacks by LRA rebels who are expanding
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25 Sep 2003

Uganda
Uganda's Lord's Army rebels kill 10 in market

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— Reuters - AlertNet
KAMPALA, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) opened fire in a market place in northern Uganda, killing 10 people, police said on Thursday.
One of Africa's strangest rebel movements, the LRA has fought a 17-year insurgency against the government and is feared for its habit of abducting children for use as soldiers and sex slaves.

"The rebels armed with rifles attacked the market at Barrio at 3 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Wednesday and killed 10 people and injured many more," a police officer said by telephone from Apac

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