Reuters report that Ugandan troops have shot dead, Lieutenant-Colonel Lobul, a senior officer of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) near Okidi village, west of Kitgum town, near the Sudanese border, Captain Paddy Ankunda a military spokesman said on Sunday August 14th August 2005.Another report by William Bionx Akena, Uganda-CAN news correspondent in Gulu town, reports – the man was called Ogur and was described as notorious.

There have been 18 years of bloodshed resulting in the displacement of (depending upon the source) 1Mn to 2 Mn people, and the settling of 800.000 people in camps who rely entirely on food aid from the World Food program. Donors that have contributed to the Ugandan appeal so far this year include the United States (US$12.5 million), the United Kingdom (US$1.8 million), Germany (US$1.2 million) and Japan (US$0.9 million). (Source WFP Nairobi)

At the end of 2003, Jan Egeland, the United Nations undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the BBC:

"I cannot find any other part of the world that is having an emergency on the scale of Uganda that is getting so little international attention."

Since then the situation has deteriorated.

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