Press Release: Commission provides additional EUR 4 million in humanitarian aid for displaced people in Northern Uganda

The European Commission has allocated €4 million to improve the humanitarian situation for more than one million internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps in Northern Uganda. They have been displaced as a result of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army insurgence. A recent cessation of hostilities means that a number of camp-based IDPs wish to go back home. The Commission's humanitarian aid focuses on those who can safely return. At the same time, it aims to improve living conditions in the camps for those with few opportunities for return in the near future. In January 2006, the Commission provided €15 million in humanitarian aid for vulnerable people in northern and central parts of the country (see IP/05/1711).

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