Northern Uganda: key facts
Internal displacement
* Between 1.8 and 2 million people are internally displaced and living
in camps (about 8 per cent of the national population).
* Approximately 1.2 million of these people are internally displaced
in the northern districts of Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader (representing 94 per
cent of the local population).
* In Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader an area the size of Belgium is now
depopulated.
* There are 202 IDP [internally displaced people) camps in northern
Uganda, some with populations of over 60,000.
* . Population density in some camps is as high as 1,700 people per
hectare.
* 50 per cent of IDPs are under the age of 15.
Mortality
* Rates of violent death are three times higher than those reported in
Iraq following the Allied invasion in 2003.
* Crude mortality rates are more than three times higher than those
recorded in Darfur in October 2005.
* There are 901 excess deaths every week. This means 129 people die
every day as a result of violence and conditions in camps.
* Each day, 58 children under the age of five die as a result of
violence and preventable diseases.
Abduction
* More than 25,000 children have been abducted during the course of
the war.
* At time of increased insecurity up to 45,000 children 'nightcommute'
each evening to avoid abduction by the LRA.
Education
* 737 schools in northern Uganda (60 per cent of the total) are
non-functioning because of the war.
* 250,000 children in northern Uganda receive no education at all.
Humanitarian access
* 80 per cent of the camps in Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader cannote be
accessed without military escorts.
Economic costs
* 95 per cent of IDPs in Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader live in absolute
poverty.
* Cost of the war to Uganda after 20 years: $1.7bn.
* Cost of the war to Uganda annually over 20 years: $85 m.
* The annual cost of the war is approximately equivalent to Uganda's
total annual income from coffee exports.
The equivalent amount of money could provide clean, safe drinking water to
3.5 million people per year - or the total population of Liberia.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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