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Heavy and persistent rainfall since July 2007 has caused dangerous levels of flooding and water-logging, the worst in decades, across large swathes of eastern and northern Uganda.  Most acutely affected are the eastern Teso sub-region (Amuria, Bukedea, Katakwi, Kumi, Soroti Districts); the north-eastern Karamoja sub-region (Abim, Kotido, Moroto, Nakapiripirit); the central Elgon sub-region (Manafwa, Bududa, Sironko, Bukwo, Kapchorwa); and lowlands of the northern Lango (Lira District) and Acholi (Pader, Kitgum Districts) sub-regions.  Children and women comprise up to 80 percent of the nearly 400,000 people affected by the situation, including approximately 200,000 who require immediate, emergency shelter and household items after being displaced from their homes, as well as the 110,000 already displaced as a result of the northern Uganda conflict. The heaviest impact has been in those areas of the country where basic services had already been overstretched, and assessments to date by humanitarian organisations show flood damage further disrupting those services and exacerbating the situation.  The contamination of water sources, following the collapse of flooded latrines, poses a direct threat to the health of children and their caregivers (even once flood waters recede). The incidence of water-borne diseases, malaria and acute respiratory infections has reportedly increased by as much as 30 percent. Varying degrees of structural damage to classrooms and teachers' quarters in 289 primary schools have prevented more than 100,000 children from beginning their third-term of the academic year on time.
UNICEF is responding to the needs of 400,000 uprooted children and women in the areas of Child Survival and Development, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Education, and Emergency Shelter (Non-Food Items).
Uganda Humanitarian Action Update 24 Sep 2007 [pdf]

Two decades of armed conflict between the Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have perpetuated a complex humanitarian situation in northern Uganda's Acholi and Lango sub-regions, marked by violence, poverty and the internal displacement of more than 1.5 million people. The right of access to essential services in health, nutrition, safe water, education, protection and shelter by the most vulnerable populations in the most disadvantaged parts of the districts remains largely unfulfilled. Children and women represent 80 percent of internally displaced persons (IDP) and have been the direct targets of attacks, sexual violence and abductions perpetuated by the LRA and others. The renewal by the Government and LRA in April 2007 of a landmark Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, and the resumption of negotiations mediated by the Government of Southern Sudan hold the promise of an increasingly secure environment for return, rehabilitation and recovery. At the time of this report, however, neither large-scale returns of IDPs nor the official release of children and women associated with the LRA has occurred.
UNICEF urgently requires US$ 16 million to ease the impact of conflict on children and respond to their immediate needs in the areas of education, protection and HIV/AIDS.
Uganda Donor Update 1 June 2007 [pdf]

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Un ouvrier de santé basé dans une communauté vaccine un enfant contre la rougeole dans le camps Pabbo IDP.

Le conflit armé entre les Forces de défense populaires ougandaises (FDPO) et l'Armée de résistance du Seigneur (ARS), qui en est à présent à sa 19ème année, a entraîné une grave crise humanitaire dans laquelle les droits des enfants et des femmes aux soins et à l'éducation de base, à l'eau et à la sécurité physique se trouvent gravement bafoués. En Ouganda, 80 pour cent des personnes déplacées dans leur propre pays (IDP) sont des enfants et des femmes, vivant dans plus de 200 camps répartis dans différents districts. L'enquête menée par l'UNICEF et l'OMS a permis de constater des taux de mortalité alarmants chez les enfants de moins de cinq ans dans trois districts affectés par le conflit. L'UNICEF a besoin d'urgence de 18,2 millions de dollars E.-U. pour répondre aux besoins des femmes et des enfants.
Mise à jour donateur pour l'Ouganda du 28 septembre 2005 [pdf en anglais]