Over 300,000 IDPs back home
Sep 12, 2006
DUE to the relative peace experienced in northern Uganda, more than 300,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have left the camps and returned to their original homes, a UN official has said.
By Chris Ocowun
DUE to the relative peace experienced in northern Uganda, more than 300,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have left the camps and returned to their original homes, a UN official has said.
Jan Egeland, the UN secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, told journalists in Gulu on Sunday, “More than 300,000 people have returned home but I don’t think we are doing enough to help them.â€
“Things have changed since I came here in 2005. We now have a degree of safety and security, which makes it much easier for us to work and also hope for the future,†he added.
While in Opit camp, Egeland slept in one of the huts belonging to the area LC3 chairman, Milton Munu. He said it was safer to stay in the camps than ever before when so many people were being kidnapped by the LRA rebels.
Egeland said a lot of money was needed to resettle the IDPs.
DUE to the relative peace experienced in northern Uganda, more than 300,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have left the camps and returned to their original homes, a UN official has said.
Jan Egeland, the UN secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, told journalists in Gulu on Sunday, “More than 300,000 people have returned home but I don’t think we are doing enough to help them.â€
“Things have changed since I came here in 2005. We now have a degree of safety and security, which makes it much easier for us to work and also hope for the future,†he added.
While in Opit camp, Egeland slept in one of the huts belonging to the area LC3 chairman, Milton Munu. He said it was safer to stay in the camps than ever before when so many people were being kidnapped by the LRA rebels.
Egeland said a lot of money was needed to resettle the IDPs.