Uganda: IDP camps close

Two decades of hunger, fear and disease in crowded camps may be ending for nearly two million internally displaced persons in the war-torn northern Uganda. Hundreds have began returning to their villages. The Ugandan army announced that the IDPs mainly in the Lango and Teso sub-regions will walk home. According to the defence and army spokesman, the resettlement process will not, however, extend to the Acholi sub region because there are still a few rebel remnants there. Millions have been forced into camps by the insurgency that has left thousands dead and many abducted and forcefully conscripted into rebellion mainly from the Acholi sub-region.