Matekpoko Anyone must understand geography first. I am not so convinced with such reports. Now take it that rebels prior to iron fist had been beaten back to the Southern Sudan, now in less than a month walk on foot so quickly so, carrying weapons- and all of the sudden are all over the place doing havoc as far as Lango. Since they were actually located deep in southern Sudan- walking that distance to reach Lira and start burning shops there is rather ridiculous and fantastic too! But there is magic and mystery into this world - i also grew up in a village.
> > Civil Society Report On War is Sobering > > > > Email This Page > > Print This Page > > > > > > The Monitor (Kampala) > > November 30, 2002 > Posted to the web December 1, 2002 > > Kampala > > The Civil Society Organisation for Peace in Northern Uganda (CSOPNU) > yesterday published in this paper its report titled: "Economic Cost of > the > Conflict in Northern Uganda". > > CSOPNU is a civil society group that brings together CARE International, > Uganda Child Rights NGO Network, Save the Children Denmark, Development > Network for Indigenous Voluntary Associations, NGO Forum, and Oxfam > Great > Britain. > > The report aims to spur efforts focussed on resolving the conflict > peacefully > and permanently. > > The full-page report said, as we have reported before, that the war > costs at > least US$100m every year by conservative calculations. According to the > report, the government spends about US$95m (approximately Shs 170bn) on > health. The report concludes that the government, therefore, spends more > money on the useless war than it does on health, a vital social service. > > More significant, however, is the report's projection about the plight > of > the > people now afflicted by the war. > > The report also notes that the war has created a generation of > conflict-affected youngsters who will grow up emotionally, physically, > and > economically blighted in displacement camps. > > Over 500,000 people are displaced, mainly in camps. > > Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are said to be the highest in the > country. > > It says that even if peace were restored in the region, the lack of > physical > assets and low levels of education and health will be an obstacle to > socio-economic revitalisation. > > Government planners need to pay attention to these observations. > > As the report notes optimistically, based on experience in Lango and > Teso, > food sufficiency can be restored relatively quickly. Incomes in the > region > can also grow quickly because of growing demand for tobacco and cotton, > which > the sub-region produced previously. > > However, the trauma of war, the missed education, the toll from > HIV/AIDS, > rape, poor feeding, will linger on for much longer. > > That is why the government needs to start planning for the long-lasting > impact of the war. But first, the war must end. > > > > __________ bwanika Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
