uganda: new attacks worsen displacement situation

The situation of displaced people in northern Uganda has worsened considerably in recent months despite the launch of a Government military operation against rebels whose repeated attacks on civilians is the main cause of displacement. In northern Uganda alone, new attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have displaced tens of thousands and created a humanitarian crisis with risk of starvation for over half-a-million people, many of them displaced since the mid-1990s.