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  • Uganda's Conflict Largely Ignored by West as Thousands Die (jihadis on the warpath)

    03/02/2006 8:18:04 PM PST · by vwunpimsmyride · 29 replies · 569+ views
    voanews.com ^ | 2MAR06 | Raymond Thibodeaux
    Many of the nearly two million people displaced by northern Uganda's long-running conflict were set to return home after the country's presidential election, if President Yoweri Museveni was defeated. He won. Now, many in northern Uganda are bracing for another five years of suffering. Aid agencies say as many as 100,000 people have died, and nearly a 1,000 more die every week, mainly from conflict-related hunger and lack of medicine. Nearly two million people have been displaced at the hands of a shadowy militia with ties to Sudan's Arab-led government. It sounds like western Sudan's Darfur conflict, but it's not....