Oct-Nov 2003
LRA activities intensify in Lira

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in partnership with OXFAM
Training on the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
November 2003
Gulu & Kitgum Districts, Uganda
Executive Summary

Over 150 displaced camp leaders, representatives of women associations and of local authorities participated in a series of workshops on IDP protection organized by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Oxfam in Gulu and Kitgum, Northern Uganda. These workshops followed the visit of the UN Special Representative on Internal Displacement and

by Helen Vesperini

GULU, Uganda, Nov 29 (AFP) - Uganda's 17-year conflict pitting the army against the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels is set to continue, even though military operations have shifted recently from the north to the northeast of the country.

"I see no prospect of it ending any time soon," a diplomat in the region told AFP on Friday.

"There are few signs of the army making real headway against the LRA and the LRA gaining ground. It's the usual pattern of hit-and-run attacks on civilians," the diplomat said.

KAMPALA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed a Ugandan and injured an Italian priest on Friday when they attacked a Catholic mission pickup truck in northern Uganda, the army said.
The LRA, led by self-proclaimed mystic and prophet Joseph Kony, has waged war against the Uganda government for 17 years.

The rebels are notorious for slicing off the limbs and lips of their victims and for snatching thousands of children for use as sex slaves and frontline fighters.

About 10 rebels opened fire at Father

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

B) East and Central Africa: (1) Republic of Congo, (2) Burundi, (3) Uganda, (4) Eritrea, (5) Djibouti, (6) Ethiopia, (7) Somalia

C) West Africa: (1) Liberia, (2) Côte d'Ivoire

D) Southern Africa: (1) Regional, (2) Namibia, (3) Zambia, (4) Zimbabwe, (5) Malawi, (6) Swaziland, (7) Lesotho, (8) Madagascar

E) Asia: (1) Myanmar, (2) DPR Korea

F) Latin America and the Caribbean: (1) Ecuador, (2) Colombia, (3) Guatemala

G) Eastern Europe and the Caucasus: (1) Russian Federation

KAMPALA, Nov 27, 2003 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has provided Uganda with an additional 1 million US dollars emergency funding to help the internally displaced people in conflict areas in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
UNICEF country representative Martin Mogwanja made the announcement at the Uganda-UNICEF country program mid-term review in Kampala on Wednesday, according to local daily The New Vision on Thursday.

Mogwanja said the money would go towards

Uganda is regarded as an HIV/AIDS success story. The government has led from the front and the benefits of a national government committed to addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic through all available channels are evident.
It is the only African country where HIV rates are declining. However, some now fear the country's 17-year civil war with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will reverse advances made in the past decade.

The north has suffered the brunt of the war, which has been marked by child abductions and atrocities by the LRA.

S/2003/1116
Letter dated 20 November 2003 from the Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

Responses of Uganda People's Defence Forces officers to the report of the United Nations Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Attached is a letter addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, reference UN/SC/0, dated 31 October 2003, on the above subject matter (see annex).

It would be appreciated if the present

KAMPALA, Nov 23 (AFP) - At least 20 people were killed and 69 children rescued from captivity in the northern Ugandan district of Lira in the past few days, Church and army officials said on Sunday.
At least 10 people were killed in Lira villages on Saturday and Sunday by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels," Roman Catholic priest Father Sebat Ayele told AFP by telephone from Lira.

"Four people were killed in Gomi village in Amachi sub-county and five in Dokolo village on Saturday, while another was killed in Agerego village on Sunday," Ayele said.