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CSOPNU
Civil Society Organisations for Peace in Northern Uganda
KEY FACTS after 20 years of war in northern Uganda
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MORTALITY
• Excess* death rates in northern Uganda are three times higher than those recorded in Darfur in October 2005.
• There are 918 excess deaths each week. This means 131 people die each day in northern Uganda as a result of violence and conditions in the camps.
• Each month almost 25,000 people in Uganda die from easily preventable diseases.
• The murder rate for Northern Uganda is currently at 146 murders per week, (0.17 murders per 10,000 people per day). This is three times higher than in Iraq, where the incidence of violent death in the period following the allied invasion was estimated to be 0.052 per 10,000 people per day.
CHILDREN & EDUCATION
• Each day, 58 children under the age of five die as a result of violence and preventable diseases.
• 25,000 children have been abducted during the course of the war.
• One quarter of children in northern Uganda over ten years old have lost one or both parents
• 250,000 children in northern Uganda receive no education at all.
• 50 percent of internally displaced people in northern Uganda are children under 15 years
• There are classrooms with 300 students for every one teacher
• Nearly half (48% percent) all children in Kitgum, northern Uganda are stunted from chronic malnutrition
• Three times more children under 5 years die in northern Uganda than in the rest of the country. (The crude mortality rate for children under 5 years old in northern Uganda is 3.18 per 10,000 children per day, which more than three times the national average of 0.98 per 10,000)
• 737 schools in northern Uganda (60 percent of the total) are non-functioning because of the war.
POVERTY & DISPLACEMENT
• Between 1.8 and 2 million people are internally displaced. (This is 8 percent of the Ugandan total population).
• There are over 200 camps housing displaced people across the northern Uganda region, some holding more than 60,000 people.
• Population densities in some camps exceed 1,700 people per hectare, densities higher even than those in Africa’s most notorious urban slums.
• In the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader in northern Uganda, an area the size of Belgium is depopulated.
• 80 percent of the camps in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader cannot be accessed without military escorts.
• Over three quarters (78%) of displaced families have no access to land to farm.
ECONOMIC COSTS
• Nearly 70 percent of displaced people have no monetary income.
• 95 percent of displaced people in northern Ugandan districts live in absolute poverty.
• The annual cost of the war to Uganda is $85 million.
CSOPNU
Civil Society Organisations for Peace in Northern Uganda
KEY FACTS after 20 years of war in northern Uganda
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MORTALITY
• Excess* death rates in northern Uganda are three times higher than those recorded in Darfur in October 2005.
• There are 918 excess deaths each week. This means 131 people die each day in northern Uganda as a result of violence and conditions in the camps.
• Each month almost 25,000 people in Uganda die from easily preventable diseases.
• The murder rate for Northern Uganda is currently at 146 murders per week, (0.17 murders per 10,000 people per day). This is three times higher than in Iraq, where the incidence of violent death in the period following the allied invasion was estimated to be 0.052 per 10,000 people per day.
CHILDREN & EDUCATION
• Each day, 58 children under the age of five die as a result of violence and preventable diseases.
• 25,000 children have been abducted during the course of the war.
• One quarter of children in northern Uganda over ten years old have lost one or both parents
• 250,000 children in northern Uganda receive no education at all.
• 50 percent of internally displaced people in northern Uganda are children under 15 years
• There are classrooms with 300 students for every one teacher
• Nearly half (48% percent) all children in Kitgum, northern Uganda are stunted from chronic malnutrition
• Three times more children under 5 years die in northern Uganda than in the rest of the country. (The crude mortality rate for children under 5 years old in northern Uganda is 3.18 per 10,000 children per day, which more than three times the national average of 0.98 per 10,000)
• 737 schools in northern Uganda (60 percent of the total) are non-functioning because of the war.
POVERTY & DISPLACEMENT
• Between 1.8 and 2 million people are internally displaced. (This is 8 percent of the Ugandan total population).
• There are over 200 camps housing displaced people across the northern Uganda region, some holding more than 60,000 people.
• Population densities in some camps exceed 1,700 people per hectare, densities higher even than those in Africa’s most notorious urban slums.
• In the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader in northern Uganda, an area the size of Belgium is depopulated.
• 80 percent of the camps in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader cannot be accessed without military escorts.
• Over three quarters (78%) of displaced families have no access to land to farm.
ECONOMIC COSTS
• Nearly 70 percent of displaced people have no monetary income.
• 95 percent of displaced people in northern Ugandan districts live in absolute poverty.
• The annual cost of the war to Uganda is $85 million.