Uganda: $600m to rebuild war-ravaged north

War-ravaged northern Uganda is to be reconstructed at a cost of $600-million, according to the government. The rehabilitation, announced by President Yoweri Museveni on October 16, is intended to restore stability to the region after 20 years of warfare pitting the Ugandan government against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a brutal insurgency that often targeted civilians for murder, maiming and abduction.