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USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND DIRECTOR FOR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE HENRIETTA FORE VISITS NORTHERN UGANDA
Henrietta H. Fore, Administrator of USAID and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance visited Uganda from March 12 -16, 2008. She is responsible for managing U.S. foreign assistance aimed at improving developing countries’ social, economic and political systems. In Uganda, U.S. assistance focuses on strengthening the conditions for peaceful development in post-conflict northern Uganda; promoting the institutionalization of multi-party democracy; addressing key health threats including malaria and HIV/AIDS; incorporating smallholder farmers into the value chain and protecting biodiversity in the environmentally threatened Albertine Rift and endangered areas of northern Uganda. (more)
Ambassador Steven A. Browning
U.S. Mission to Uganda
Ambassador’s Review
July 23, 2007
Northern Uganda is beginning to emerge from one of Africa’s most brutal conflicts. Those of us fortunate enough to be serving in Uganda at this time are watching and participating in a dramatic transformation. One year ago, the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army began negotiations to end a 21-year old insurgency that saw the abduction of over 40,000 Ugandan children and displacement of 1.8 million northerners. Today, 80 percent of internally-displaced persons (IDPs) are now accessing up to four acres of land near or in their home areas. The phenomenon of the “night commuters”, children who sought refuge in shelters to avoid abduction at night, has dwindled from 24,000 in 2005 to less than 2,700 in 2007. Those still seeking shelter do so for other reasons than fear of LRA abduction. (Read on)
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Peace Process Chronology
March 1-April 18, 2008
The date for the signature of the Final Peace Agreement (FPA) slipped through March into April. The LRA delegation held a consultation with northern Ugandan leaders in Juba on March 26 and 27. The Government and LRA agreed to extend the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement to April 6 and then to April 15. The Government has not decided on whether it will renew the CHA. (more)
