DRC-UGANDA: Refugees seek a better life over the border
DRC-UGANDA BORDER, ISHASHA, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Jean-Claude Molumba has not worked in more a month. He is a primary school teacher but it is not safe for him – or his students – to assemble for classes. Just last week, when he realised that more than 300 people in his small village had died, he decided to leave DRC and cross the border to Uganda.
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DRC-UGANDA: "There is no one and no tribe that is safe"
ISHASHA, 20 November 2008 (IRIN) - Jacquelyn Ingenda Himana is one of 12,000 Congolese refugees who thought her chances for survival might be better in Uganda than in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting among rebel factions and the army has displaced more than 250,000 people.
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UGANDA: Malaria on the rise in Lango
OYAM, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - There has been an upsurge in the number of malaria cases reported in the sub-region of Lango in northern Uganda due to poor mosquito control, according to health officials.
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UGANDA: Officials hope emergency will be avoided as rains subside
KAMPALA, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - Heavy rains have displaced thousands and damaged crops in eastern and northern Uganda, but officials are optimistic an emergency will be avoided as better weather is predicted.
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UGANDA: Alice: “I saw my friend being beheaded and his body cut up”
GULU, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its decades-long insurgency in the north have to live with the trauma and psychological scars long after their rescue and return to civilian life. One such is Alice*, abducted in 2005 when she was only 12. She told IRIN about her escape from rebel captivity in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo:
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UGANDA: Geoffrey: "After eight years as a child soldier, all I want is to forget the past"
GULU, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Geoffrey was 10 years old when the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abducted him as he walked to school in Gulu, northern Uganda, in 2000. He recalls fleeing rebel captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in June:
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UGANDA DIARIES: Dalson Oyo, organiser at Aloto resettlement site - "You can achieve more together than alone"
ALOTO, NEAR KITGUM, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Dalson Oyo is an organiser at Aloto resettlement site for formerly displaced people, 25km south of Kitgum.
This is part of a special IRIN series: Uganda diaries, in which a selection of ordinary people in northern Uganda talk about their lives in their own words. (updated 13 November 2008)
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UGANDA: Fuel shortage hits aid work in north
GULU, 6 November 2008 (IRIN) - Aid workers in northern Uganda could scale down operations if a fuel shortage persists, officials told IRIN.
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UGANDA: Drought, hunger drive Karamoja children to beg in Kampala
KAMPALA, 3 November 2008 (IRIN) - Agatha Locham, 23, sits with her two weak and malnourished children a few steps from the entrance to a bank in Kampala.
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UGANDA: Uganda Diaries (updated)
NAIROBI, 3 November 2008 (IRIN) - (updated: November 2008) This is part of a special IRIN series: Uganda diaries, in which a selection of ordinary people in northern Uganda talk about their lives in their own words. The "diaries" were gathered over several interviews in Uganda starting from July 2007. Each individual's diary will be updated from time to time over the coming weeks.
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