Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Lira has awarded 68 billion Shillings in compensation to more than 5,000 families after the government set up an Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) camp on their land. In 2016, the families acting under their umbrella Lango Camp Host Association (LACHA) filed …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elite women from Kasese district have tasked the government to expedite the process of permanently relocating the more than 220 households that were displaced by floods in 2020. 176 of these households are headed by women. At least 1068 persons have spent more than two years …
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Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has instructed Kayunga district local government to work closely with her office to conduct valuation of the land housing the internally displaced persons-IDP resettlement camp so as to purchase it. Nabbanja made the instructions after touring Galiraya sub county were over …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A former member of the Amuka militia group has said that government soldiers mistakenly attacked and killed civilians and burned their homes in the Abok internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp. The militia fought alongside the Uganda People’s Defence Force-UPDF during the LRA insurgency. Witness D-121 …
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