Villages across northern Uganda have been uprooted. The former residents languish in camps, which are cramped and unsanitary. Food, clean water and medical care are scarce. Malnutrition and diseases such as malaria, scabies and tuberculosis afflict many. Those who leave camp to look for work, firewood or edible plants risk being attacked by the rebels or blown up by mines that litter the landscape. An elderly couple sits in their mudhut in Pabbo IDP camp near Gulu and wait for the monthly food aid supplied by World Food Programme.

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